Dougherty, M.R. and Harbison, J.I. and Davelaar, Eddy J. (2014) Optional stopping and the termination of memory retrieval. Current Directions in Psychological Science 23 (5), pp. 332-337. ISSN 0963-7214.
Abstract
Recent years have seen an increased interest in understanding memory-retrieval dynamics and, in particular, what makes a person decide to terminate the memory-search process. We review research that has employed the open-ended retrieval paradigm (Dougherty & Harbison, 2007) and focus on the behavioral regularities it has revealed. The main finding of this research is that people’s memory-search behavior follows a lawful pattern of a convex decreasing relation between exit latency, or the time between the final retrieval and the decision to terminate search, and the number of items retrieved. Theoretical work has converged on a stopping rule that treats the retrieval process as a costly cognitive process that is truncated on the basis of a comparative judgment of perceived relative benefit. Parallels with other search domains are highlighted.
Metadata
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Keyword(s) / Subject(s): | free recall, search termination, cognitive search, stopping rules |
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Science > School of Psychological Sciences |
| Depositing User: | Administrator |
| Date Deposited: | 20 Oct 2014 16:50 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2023 17:13 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/10757 |
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