Empirical approaches to information processing: Speed-accuracy tradeoff functions or reaction time — a reply

Abstract This papers prsents a reply to Schmitt and Scheirer's (1977) criticism of recent work using the speed-accuracy tradeoff methodology. Several factual and conceptual errors in Schmitt and Scheirer's reporting of the empirical speed-accuracy tradeoff papers on recognition memory are corrected and a short discussion of the speed-accuracy method is presented

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