Effects of exact and category repetition in true and false recognition memory.
Participants indicate that they remember an item if they can consciously recollect it.
Aim was to show that conceptual processing can influence know judgments. From what we've said so far it makes sense that massing items at study would increase fluency without increasing distinctiveness. Spacing items at study should increase distinctiveness. Participants studied items in either a massed or spaced format Items presented for 1 second, then there was a 1 second pause, then the next item was presented Recognition test 15 minutes later in which Ss made remember, know or guess responses Results Repetition increased remember judgments in both spaced and massed conditions. Effect of number of repetitions on remember judgments was greater for spaced than for massed Know judgments were not influenced by number of repetitions or by whether spaced or massed repetition was used.