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Negative Remembering

aycan kapucu, university of massachusetts amherst

Document Type: Open Access

Degree Program

Psychology

Degree Type

Master of Science (M.S.)

Year Degree Awarded

2007

Month Degree Awarded

September

Primary Subject Category

Psychology

Keywords

recognition memory, recollection, familiarity, ROC curves, remember-know paradigm

Advisor(s) or Committee Chair

Rotello, Caren M

 

Abstract

ABSTRACT NEGATIVE REMEMBERING SEPTEMBER 2007 AYCAN KAPUCU, B.A., BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY ISTANBUL M.S., UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST Directed by: Professor Caren M. Rotello Three experiments investigated the use of recall-to-accept and recall-to-reject processes in recognition and remember-know decisions. In all three experiments, participants studied a mixed list of singular and plural words. During the recognition test, participants made old-new confidence ratings and remember-know judgments for studied items, lures that were similar to studied items, and new lures. Old-similar ROC curves were constructed from the confidence ratings and found to be linear, consistent with the use of a high-threshold recollective process. The ROC intercepts and remember response rates converged on the same estimates of the amount of recollection for both positive (recall-to-accept) and negative (recall-to-reject) decisions.

Recommended Citation

kapucu, aycan, "Negative Remembering" (2007). Masters Theses. Paper 35.
http://scholarworks.umass.edu/theses/35