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Negative Remembering
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