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Direct linkMcDonough, Ian M.; Gallo, David A. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2008
Retrieval monitoring enhances episodic memory accuracy. For instance, false recognition is reduced when participants base their decisions on more distinctive recollections, a retrieval monitoring process called the distinctiveness heuristic. The experiments reported here tested the hypothesis that autobiographical elaboration during study (i.e.,…
Descriptors: Semantics, Familiarity, Heuristics, Memory
