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The Contribution of Recollection and Familiarity to Recognition and Source-Memory Judgments: A Formal Dual-Process Model and an Analysis of Receiver OperatingCharacteristics

The Contribution of Recollection and Familiarity to Recognition and Source-Memory Judgments: A... A formal dual-process model that assumes that memoryjudgments can be based on a threshold recollection process and asignal-detection-based familiarity process is proposed to accountfor both recognition and source-memory performance. The model wastested in 4 experiments by examining recognition and source-memoryreceiver operating characteristics (ROCs). In agreement with thepredictions of the model, recognition and source memory dissociatedin certain conditions. Recognition ROCs were curvilinear inprobability space and relatively linear in z-space, as expected ifrecollection and familiarity contributed to performance. Incontrast, source ROCs typically were linear and exhibited apronounced U shape in z-space, as expected if performanceprimarily relied on recollection. However, in conditions in whichfamiliarity was clearly indicative of an item's source, the sourceROC became curvilinear, suggesting that participants could usefamiliarity as a basis for source judgments. Several alternativemodels, including the unequal-variance signal-detection model, werefound to be inconsistent with the ROC data. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition American Psychological Association

The Contribution of Recollection and Familiarity to Recognition and Source-Memory Judgments: A Formal Dual-Process Model and an Analysis of Receiver OperatingCharacteristics

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American Psychological Association
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Copyright © 1999 American Psychological Association
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0278-7393
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1939-1285
DOI
10.1037/0278-7393.25.6.1415
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Abstract

A formal dual-process model that assumes that memoryjudgments can be based on a threshold recollection process and asignal-detection-based familiarity process is proposed to accountfor both recognition and source-memory performance. The model wastested in 4 experiments by examining recognition and source-memoryreceiver operating characteristics (ROCs). In agreement with thepredictions of the model, recognition and source memory dissociatedin certain conditions. Recognition ROCs were curvilinear inprobability space and relatively linear in z-space, as expected ifrecollection and familiarity contributed to performance. Incontrast, source ROCs typically were linear and exhibited apronounced U shape in z-space, as expected if performanceprimarily relied on recollection. However, in conditions in whichfamiliarity was clearly indicative of an item's source, the sourceROC became curvilinear, suggesting that participants could usefamiliarity as a basis for source judgments. Several alternativemodels, including the unequal-variance signal-detection model, werefound to be inconsistent with the ROC data.

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Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition – American Psychological Association

Published: Nov 1, 1999

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