Across item types, items given high recall-likelihood ratings are recalled with greater probability than items given lower ratings¶

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Evidence · 1 study · causal r1 · q3
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Subclaims¶

q3 i? For singles, MP items, and DP items alike, items rated high (6-7) were recalled more often than items rated low or intermediate. → Zechmeister 1980

Evidence¶

Zechmeister 1980¶

Zechmeister, E. B., & Shaughnessy, J. J. (1980). When you know that you know and when you think that you know but you don't. Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, 15(1), 41-44. https://doi.org/10.3758/bf03329756

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A final analysis of the same experiment examined recall as a function of rating level, reporting proportions for low (1-2), intermediate (3-5), and high (6-7) ratings (e.g., singles .33/.35/.67; DP .38/.47/.73), which the authors take as "a similar ability to identify those items that were most likely to be recalled".

"For all three item types , recall probability was greater for items given a high rating than for items given low or intermediate ratings."

Discussion¶

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