Familiarity, Recollection and Recognition accuracy study

Abstract

In our study we take a fresh look at recognition using a two-alternative forced choice item recognition task displaying natural scenes photographs in three paired test conditions, based on Tulving’s (1981) picture-similarity paradigm. Participants rated confidence in their old decision on a continuous 0–100 scale, answered yes or no to whether they had recollected the picture, [assessing recollection of the target image (that participants remembered having seen the image in the study phase) without asking for recall of contextual detail (source memory)], and finally rated familiarity strength for the recognised (old) image on a continuous 0–100 scale. The study was carried out online and data was collected using the Gorilla psychology software platform. Data was supplied as anonymised excel files,