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White, Peter A. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2011
In 4 experiments, participants made judgments about forces exerted and resistances put up by objects involved in described interactions. Two competing hypotheses were tested: (1) that judgments are derived from the same knowledge base that is thought to be the source of perceptual impressions of forces that occur with visual stimuli, and (2) that…
Descriptors: Visual Stimuli, Hypothesis Testing, Evaluative Thinking, Heuristics
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Kleider, Heather M.; Goldinger, Stephen D. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2006
Like all probabilistic decisions, recognition memory judgments are based on inferences about the strength and quality of stimulus familiarity. In recent articles, B. W. A. Whittlesea and J. Leboe (2000; J. Leboe & B. W. A. Whittlesea, 2002) proposed that such memory decisions entail various heuristics, similar to well-known heuristics in overt…
Descriptors: Heuristics, Recognition (Psychology), Familiarity, Decision Making