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retrieval fluency  

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  • Judgment of the ease with which information comes to mind when trying to find it in memory. Fluency of retrieval can be used as a not always relevant metacognitive cue for the accuracy of the information recollected: the more retrieval is supposed to be easy, the more information is said to be correct.

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  • • Benjamin, A. S., & Bjork, R. A. (1996). Retrieval fluency as a metacognitive index. In L. M. Reder (Ed.), Implicit Memory and Metacognition (p. 309-338). Erlbaum.

    [Study type: literature review / Access: closed]
  • • Benjamin, A. S., Bjork, R. A., & Schwartz, B. L. (1998). The mismeasure of memory: when retrieval fluency is misleading as a metamnemonic index. Journal of Experimental Psychology. General, 127(1), 55–68. https://doi.org/10.1037//0096-3445.127.1.55

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]
  • • Kelley, C. M., & Rhodes, M. G. (2002). Making sense and nonsense of experience: Attributions in memory and judgment. In B. H. Ross (Ed.), The Psychology of Learning and Motivation (Vol. 41, p. 293-320). Academic Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0079-7421(02)80010-X

    [Study type: literature review / Access: closed]

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  • Frank Arnould

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