People use the memory for past-test heuristic as an explicit cue for judgments of learning

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1260-1272

  Serra, Michael J ^a   Ariel, Robert ^b  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Explicit cue use; Implicit cue use; Judgments of learning; Memory for past test; Metacognition; Relative accuracy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ASSOCIATION; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; LEARNING; MEMORY; PHYSIOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; CUES; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LEARNING; MEMORY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84939880151     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: 15325946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13421-014-0431-0     Document Type: Article

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