Making sense and nonsense of experience: Attributions in memory and judgment

Publisher Summary This chapter review research on whether ease of perceptual processing serves as a basis for familiarity in recognition memory and on criticisms of the role of perceptual fluency in recognition. It assess the generality of the notion of a fluency heuristic by exploring whether there are other enhancements of processing due to repetition that are both specific and substantial enough to serve as the basis for a fluency heuristic, namely conceptual fluency and retrieval fluency. If memory is indeed an attribution regarding effects of past experience on current experience, then the relative diagnosticity of those cues as indicators of past experience is critical for memory accuracy. This chapter discusses the relation between the basis for memory judgments and memory monitoring. There is ambiguity in the source of variations in current processing, such that effects of past experience can be misattributed to current conditions, affecting judgments of everything from perceptual judgments of brightness and duration to judgments of the complexity of a text.

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