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A Model Of Positive Sequential Dependencies In Judgments Of Frequency, Jeffrey Scott Annis
A Model Of Positive Sequential Dependencies In Judgments Of Frequency, Jeffrey Scott Annis
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Positive sequential dependencies occur when the response on the current trial n is positively correlated with the response on trial n-1. This was recently observed in a Judgment of Frequency (JOF) task (Malmberg and Annis, 2011). A model of positive sequential dependencies was developed in the REM framework (Shiffrin & Steyvers, 1997) by assuming that features that represent the current test item in a retrieval cue carry over from the previous retrieval cue. To assess the model, we sought a set of data that allows us to distinguish between frequency similarity and item similarity. Therefore, we chose to use a …