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missing item task  

Definition

  • "In the missing item task (Yntema & Trask, 1963), two lists are presented on each trial, a study list and a test list. The items in both lists are presented one at a time. The test list contains all but one of the items from the study list and they are presented in a new random order. The task is to report which item from the study list is missing in the test list." (Neath, 2022, p. 1).

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Bibliographic citation(s)

  • • Neath, I. (2022). Memory without retrieval: Testing the direct-access account of the missing item task. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology = Revue Canadienne De Psychologie Experimentale, 76(1), 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1037/cep0000263

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]

  • • Yntema, D. B., & Trask, F. P. (1963). Recall as a search process. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 2(1), 65‑74. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0022-5371(63)80069-9

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]

Creator

  • Frank Arnould

Dataset citation(s)

  • • Neath, I. (2022, April 18). Memory without retrieval: Testing the direct-access account of the missing item task doi:10.17605/OSF.IO/4DN3Z

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