The combined contributions of the cue-familiarity and accessibility heuristics to feelings of knowing.

@article{Koriat2001TheCC,
  title={The combined contributions of the cue-familiarity and accessibility heuristics to feelings of knowing.},
  author={Asher Koriat and Ravit Levy-Sadot},
  journal={Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition},
  year={2001},
  volume={27 1},
  pages={
          34-53
        }
}
  • A. Koriat, R. Levy-Sadot
  • Published 2001
  • Psychology
  • Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition
A model for the basis of feeling of knowing (FOK) is proposed, which combines 2 apparently competing accounts, cue familiarity (L. M. Reder, 1987), and accessibility (A. Koriat, 1993). Both cue familiarity and accessibility are assumed to contribute asynchronously to FOK, but whereas the effects of familiarity occur early, those of accessibility occur later and only when cue familiarity is sufficiently high to drive the interrogation of memory for potential answers. General information… 
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