Recently added articles from The Journal of General Psychology:
A study of temporal estimation from the perspective of the mental clock model.(Report)
Apr 01, 2009; ... IN SPITE OF THE HETEROGENEITY of the extensive literature on the perception of time, a common ground is the evidence, initially recognized by James (1890), that human beings are seldom accurate in their evaluations of elapsed time. In general, there are two possible judgment biases when an ...
Features of autobiographical memory: theoretical and empirical issues in the measurement of flashbulb memory.(Report)
Apr 01, 2009; ... IN THEIR 1977 PAPER, BROWN AND KULIK DEFINED flashbulb memories (FBMs) as vivid, detailed, and long-lasting autobiographical memories for attributes of the reception context of relevant public news. According to them, people may, for a long time, retain not only the original event itself ...
Mediation analysis: a retrospective snapshot of practice and more recent directions.(Report)
Apr 01, 2009; ... IN 1986, R. BARON AND KENNY PRESENTED a method, commonly known as mediation analysis, for demonstrating that a data set is consistent with a model in which an intervening (or middle) variable helps explain how an independent variable influences a dependent variable. Researchers ...
The usefulness of retrieval practice and review-only practice for answering conceptually related test questions.(Report)
Apr 01, 2009; ... THE PRESENT RESEARCH EXAMINED the usefulness of practice tests in the hypothetical, but realistic, scenario of students' last-minute preparation for an introductory psychology test. The motivation behind this research was the recognition that, although practice tests are among the contents ...
Modality effects in sentence recall.(Report)
Apr 01, 2009; ... POTTER AND LOMBARDI (1990) INTRODUCED the lure-intrusion paradigm to measure short-term sentence recall. Their finding that the lure was remembered as part of the sentence was important because it showed that recall involved more than just verbatim recall from short-term memory. Some ...