Kellen, David;
Meyer-Grant, Constantin G;
Singmann, Henrik;
Klauer, Karl Christoph;
(2025)
Critical Testing in Recognition Memory: Selective Influence, Single-Item Generalization, and the High-Threshold Hypothesis.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition
10.1037/xlm0001434.
(In press).
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Abstract
In recent years, discussions comparing high-threshold and continuous accounts of recognition-memory judgments have increasingly turned their attention toward critical testing. One of the defining features of this approach is its requirement for the relationship between theoretical assumptions and predictions to be laid out in a transparent and precise way. One of the (fortunate) consequences of this requirement is that it encourages researchers to debate the merits of the different assumptions at play. The present work addresses a recent attempt to overturn the dismissal of high-threshold models by getting rid of a background selective-influence assumption. However, it can be shown that the contrast process proposed to explain this violation undermines a more general assumption that we dubbed “single-item generalization.” We argue that the case for the dismissal of these assumptions and the claimed support for the proposed high-threshold contrast account does not stand the scrutiny of their theoretical properties and empirical implications.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Critical Testing in Recognition Memory: Selective Influence, Single-Item Generalization, and the High-Threshold Hypothesis |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1037/xlm0001434 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0001434 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | 2-HIGH-THRESHOLD, critical testing, DISCRETE-STATE, EPISODIC MEMORY, high-threshold models, INEQUALITY, INFORMATION, MAINSTREAM, MODELS, Psychology, Psychology, Experimental, recognition memory, ROCS, signal detection theory, SIGNAL-DETECTION, SIMILARITY, single-item generalization, Social Sciences |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Experimental Psychology |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10206128 |
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