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Scaling the Accuracy of Recalls of Stories Under Restricted Conditions of Judgment

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Two sets of twenty recalls each of a short story were collected. Both sets had the variability in length (differences in number of words) reduced; one set by selecting recalls of much the same length from a larger population of recalls, the other by instructing those giving the recalls to write a stated number of words. Without information regarding the original story, judges were able to reliably scale the first set but not the second. Additional manipulation in the content of the first set of recalls in an attempt to make them unscalable failed. The study gave support to the two-factor nature of judgments of accuracy of recall of connected meaningful material. It further illustrated the very flexible manner in which judges are able to make judgments of accuracy in this area.

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  1. Albion College, USA

    David J. King & R. Bruce Harper

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This work was supported by Grants GB-2845 and GY-196 between the National Science Foundation and Albion College.

The research reported in this article represents a portion of the material submitted by the second author in partial fulfillment of the requirements for graduation with Honors in Psychology.

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King, D.J., Harper, R.B. Scaling the Accuracy of Recalls of Stories Under Restricted Conditions of Judgment. Psychol Rec 17, 531–535 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03393729

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