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An experiment is described which tests the plausibility of the assumption that two-alternative forced-choice (2AFC) recency discrimination is based on an independent lag estimate of each item. 39 Ss made absolute recency judgments for items (common nouns) at varying lag intervals while an independent group of 74 Ss made 2AFC judgments for pairs of items at comparable lag combinations. It was found that the absolute judgment data generated accurate predictions of 2AFC performance.
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This research was conducted at the Pennsylvania State University and supported by Grant No. HD-00151 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and Grant No. 86 from the P.S.U. Central Fund for Research. The manuscript was prepared while the author held a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Toronto, supported by Grant APA 146 from the National Research Council of Canada.
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Lockhart, R.S. Recency discrimination predicted from absolute lag judgments. Perception & Psychophysics 6, 42–44 (1969). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03210673
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