Retrieval effort or intention: Which is more important for participants' classification of involuntary and voluntary memories?
Theories of autobiographical memory distinguish between involuntary and voluntary memories. While involuntary memories are retrieved with no conscious intention and are therefore unexpected, voluntary memories are both intended and expected. Recent research has shown that participants sometimes clas...
| Publicado en: | British Journal of Psychology Vol. 112; no. 4; pp. 1080 - 1103 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Nov2021
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