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Starns, Jeffrey J.; Rotello, Caren M.; Ratcliff, Roger – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2012
Koen and Yonelinas (2010; K&Y) reported that mixing classes of targets that had short (weak) or long (strong) study times had no impact on zROC slope, contradicting the predictions of the encoding variability hypothesis. We show that they actually derived their predictions from a mixture unequal-variance signal detection (UVSD) model, which…
Descriptors: Evidence, Prediction, Study Habits, Models
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Rothstein, Hannah R.; Bushman, Brad J. – Psychological Methods, 2012
It is well documented that studies reporting statistically significant results are more likely to be published than are studies reporting nonsignificant results--a phenomenon called "publication bias". Publication bias in meta-analytic reviews should be identified and reduced when possible. Ferguson and Brannick (2012) argued that the inclusion of…
Descriptors: Research Reports, Academic Discourse, Context Effect, Bias