Orienting tasks affect recall performance more than subjective impressions of ability to recall.

Number 169
Year 1975
Drawer 3
Entry Date 06/16/1998
Authors Cutting, J. E.
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Publication Psychological Review, 36, 155-158.
url http://www.haskins.yale.edu/Reprints/HL0169.pdf
Abstract The type of task performed when 354 undergraduates listened to a list of words significantly affected their ability to recall that list. Subjective impressions of ability to recall, however, did not correspond to be the number of items which could be recalled. Awareness lagged behind amount of incidental learning.
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