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Direct linkBrainerd, C. J.; Bialer, D. M.; Chang, M.; Upadhyay, P. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2022
In recognition memory, anything that is objectively new is necessarily not-old, and anything that is objectively old is necessarily not-new. Therefore, judging whether a test item is new is logically equivalent to judging whether it is old, and conversely. Nevertheless, a series of 10 experiments showed that old? and new? judgments did not produce…
Descriptors: Memory, Recognition (Psychology), Novelty (Stimulus Dimension), Evaluative Thinking
