TY - JOUR PY - 1992// TI - Cue familiarity but not target retrievability enhances feeling-of-knowing judgments JO - Journal of experimental psychology: learning, memory, and cognition A1 - Schwartz, B. L. A1 - Metcalfe, J. SP - 1074 EP - 1083 VL - 18 IS - 5 N2 - Two hypotheses concerning people's ability to predict later memory performance for unrecalled items were investigated. The target retrievability hypothesis states that feeling-of-knowing judgments (FKJs) are based on partial target information; and the cue familiarity hypothesis asserts that they are based on recognition of the cues. In Experiments 1 and 2, subjects either generated or read the targets of paired associates. Half of the cues had been primed in a pleasantness-rating task. The generation manipulation increased recall but had no effect on FKJs. Cue priming had no effect on recall but increased FKJs. In Experiment 3, using general information questions, primed after the initial recall attempt, both cue and target priming increased FKJs. Experiment 4, which remedied difficulties in Experiment 3, showed no effect of target priming whereas cue priming increased FKJs. The results favor the cue familiarity hypothesis.
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