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Ss rated their confidence in the correctness of their response in a recall-recognition RTT paired-associates paradigm. For items correct on T1, T2 recognition operating characteristics showed increasing recognition accuracy as a function of T1 confidence. Items incorrect on recall produced an ROC indicating nonrandom performance on T2-The results are interpreted as opposing an all-or-none theory of paired-associates learning.
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1. We owe an intellectual debt to Dennis McFadden and James Greeno of Indiana University for discussion of their earlier, similar experiments which have not yet been published. We thank Principal W. Mumford of Gananoque Secondary School for permission to use students as Ss, and Pat Pappas for assistance. This research was supported by N.R.C. Grant No. APA 160.
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Pappas, B.A., Suboski, M.D. Recognition operating characteristics as a function of prior recall confidence. Psychon Sci 6, 83–84 (1966). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03327968
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