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What day is today? An inquiry into the process of time orientation
In each of the 6 work days of a 2-week period, approximately equal numbers of passers-by were presented with the question “What day is today?” The experiment took place in Israel, using a total of 273 Ss. Aver...
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What does a person in a “TOT” state know that a person in a “don’t know” state doesn’t know
The purpose of this study was to examine the significance of Brown and McNeill’s (1966) findings regarding the “tip of the tongue” (TOT) phenomenon, A modified version of their procedure was used with 56 Ss. A...
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Phonetic symbolism and feeling of knowing
American subjects matched English antonym pairs with antonym pairs from Thai, Kannada, and Yoruba. For each match they also,indicated their degree of feeling of knowing (FOK). Although translation accuracy was...
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Examination of the letter serial position effect in the “TOT” and the “don’t know” states
Brown and McNeill (1966) found that subjects in the “tip of the tongue” (TOT) state were better able to guess letters in earlier and later positions of an inaccessible word than letters in the mi...
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Another look at the relationship between phonetic symbolism and the feeling of knowing
Koriat (1975), using a word-matching phonetic symbolism task, found a significant relationship between translation accuracy and the degree of subjective confidence associated with the response. This study exam...
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The symbolic implications of vowels and of their orthographic representations in two natural languages
Ninety-two Hebrew-speaking subjects judged the magnitude, brightness, and hardness symbolism of orthographic characters designating five vowel phonemes in Hindi and in Japanese. For both languages and all thre...
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Delay of gratification as a function of exchange values and appetitive values of the rewards
This study examined the manner in which the probability of delaying gratification is affected by the exchange values and the appetitive values of the rewards offered. Several delay-of-gratification questions w...
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Figural symbolism in Chinese ideographs
Hebrew-speaking subjects were presented with 42 pairs of Chinese characters designating antonymic concepts and were required to match them with their corresponding Hebrew words. Correct translation was signifi...
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Semantic facilitation in lexical decision as a function of prime-target association
Using a lexical decision task, the relationship between magnitude of semantic facilitation and degree of prime-target relatedness was examined as a function of amount of attention allocated to the prime and th...
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Lexical access for low- and high-frequency words in Hebrew
The hypothesis that phonological mediation is involved to a greater extent in the recognition of low- than in the recognition of high-frequency words was examined using Hebrew. Hebrew has two forms of spelling...
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Mental rotation and visual familiarity
Mental rotation functions often evidence a curvilinear trend indicating relative indifference to small departures from the upright. In Experiment 1, this was true only for normal letters whereas reflected lett...
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Depth of processing and memory organization
The study examined the idea that the organization of information in memory varies depending on the depth of processing during input, as well as on the conditions for retrieval. Two types of memory organization...
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Encoding information for future action: Memory for to-be-performed tasks versus memory for to-be-recalled tasks
What is the nature of the representation underlying memory for future tasks such as calling the doctor or buying milk? If this representation consists of a verbal instruction that is translated into action at ...
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The contextualization of input and output events in memory
Several observations from everyday life suggest that people are deficient in monitoring their own actions, often forgetting that they have already performed a planned act, or experiencing doubt as to whether t...
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The effects of syntactic structure on letter detection in adjacent function words
In the present study, we examined letter detection in very frequent function-word sequences. It has been claimed that such sequences are processed in a unitized manner, thus preempting access to their constitu...
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Object-based apparent motion
The interpretation of a dynamic visual scene requires integrating information within frames (grou** and completion) and across frames (correspondence matching). Fragmentary views of objects were used in five...
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The extraction of phrase structure during reading: Evidence from letter detection errors
In light of recent suggestions regarding the prominence of structure in speech production and comprehension, it has been postulated that structural processing might also play a similarly important role in read...
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The subjective organization of input and output events in memory
In order to study the organization of memory for self-performed actions, 80 participants were presented with 20 action phrases for ten consecutive study-test cycles. Enactment was manipulated both in the inpu...
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Letter-detection patterns in German: A window to the early extraction of sentential structure during reading
Letters are more difficult to detect in function words than in content words, presumably because function words serve to cue sentential structure but recede to the background as meaning unfolds. This function ...
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Metacognitive Judgments and their Accuracy
In this chapter we begin by examining the processes underlying metacognitive judgments, contrasting the two major approaches to the study of metacognition —the developmental and cognitive-experimental approach...
