Norms of 300 general information questions accuracy of recall latency of recall and feeling of knowing ratings

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AuthorsNelson, Thomas O.OANarens, LouisOA

Year1980

JournalJournal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior

Abstract

Normative data were collected on 300 general-information questions from a wide variety of topics, including history, sports, art, geography, literature, and entertainment. Male and female undergraduates at two different universities made a one-word response to each question either in a response booklet or at a computer console. The reported data include the following for each question: (a) probability of recall for all 270 undergraduates, for males versus females, and for University of Washington subjects versus University of California, Irvine, subjects, (b) latency of correct recall, (c) latency of errors, and (d) feeling-of-knowing ratings for nonrecalled items. Correlations among these dependent variables, along with measures of reliability, are also reported. {\textcopyright} 1980 Academic Press, Inc.

LanguageEnglish

Norms collectedprobability of recall, latency of correct recall, latency of errors, feeling-of-knowing ratings

Stimuli typewords

Stimuli count300

Participant typeundergraduate students

Reliabilities

probability of recall (correlations)

latency of correct recall (correlations)

feeling-of-knowing ratings (correlations)

Instructions

This experiment will investigate your knowledge about general kinds of information. We will go through a very large number of general information questions. For each question, PRINT your best guess in the space to the left of the question.

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