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In three experiments, we explored the revelation effect in a frequency judgment task. Participants estimated the frequency of words that had been presented one, two, four, or eight times. At test, half the words were revealed by completing word fragments, and half were presented intact. Estimated frequencies were reliably higher for revealed than for intact words, and in two of the three experiments, the revelation effect became larger as actual frequency increased. A revelation effect was obtained whether the revealed word was the same as (Experiment 1) or different from (Experiment 2) the word judged for frequency. Frequency estimates were higher for more distorted test items (Experiment 3).
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This research was conducted by the second author in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the doctoral degree, under supervision of the first author.
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Bornstein, B.H., Neely, C.B. The revelation effect in frequency judgment. Memory & Cognition 29, 209–213 (2001). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03194914
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03194914