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Direct linkCleary, Anne M.; Claxton, Alexander B. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2015
This study shows that the presence of a tip-of-the-tongue (TOT) state--the sense that a word is in memory when its retrieval fails--is used as a heuristic for inferring that an inaccessible word has characteristics that are consistent with greater word perceptibility. When reporting a TOT state, people judged an unretrieved word as more likely to…
Descriptors: Recall (Psychology), Heuristics, Metacognition, Memory
Chen, Zhijian; Cowan, Nelson – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2005
Whereas some research on immediate recall of verbal lists has suggested that it is limited by the number of chunks that can be recalled (e.g., N. Cowan, Z. Chen, & J. N. Rouder, 2004; E. Tulving & J. E. Patkau, 1962), other research has suggested that it is limited by the length of the material to be recalled (e.g., A. D. Baddeley, N. Thomson, &…
Descriptors: Recall (Psychology), Word Lists, Cognitive Processes, Serial Ordering
