The role of decision processes in remembering and knowing
- 1 July 1996
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Memory & Cognition
- Vol. 24 (4) , 523-533
- https://doi.org/10.3758/bf03200940
Abstract
Participants in recognition memory studies are now often asked to partition recognized items into ones that are accompanied by some recollective experience (those they remember) and ones that are not so accompanied (but which they know were previously encountered). Rather than detecting separate memory systems, such attempts to distinguish between remembering and knowing are better understood as a division of positive recognition responses into those that lie above a second decision criterion (remember) and those that do not (know). As such, the amount of memory associated with knowing is strongly dependent on the placement of the decision criteria. A meta-analysis of published data and a simple experiment tested predictions from the decision process analysis of remember/know responses.Keywords
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