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On each trial of a short-term memory task, Ss were required to give the correct response to a paired-associate stimulus and to estimate the number of trials intervening between study and test on that stimulus. On trials where an incorrect paired-associate response was made, judgment of the number of intervening items was relatively independent of the actual number of intervening items. On trials where a correct paired-associate response was made, judgment of the number of intervening items was accurate for recent items but incorrect for more distant items.
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1. This study was supported in part by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Grant No. NGR-05-020-036.
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Brelsford, J., Freund, R. & Rundus, D. Recency judgments in a short-term memory task. Psychon Sci 8, 247–248 (1967). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03331644
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