A FEELING-OF-RECOGNITION WITHOUT IDENTIFICATION

In a series of four experiments, subjects studied a list of words and then tried to complete fragments of these words as well as fragments of nonstudied words. They also indicated on a rating scale whether the word specified by each fragment was a list word or not, regardless of whether they were able to complete the fragment and identify the word. When ratings for only those fragments that could not be completed were considered, a higher mean rating was obtained for list words than for lure words. This was the case with both two-letter and four-letter fragments, with both 10 s and 20 s allowed for working on each fragment, and with both Turkish and English words. Thus, a curious finding, a feeling-of-knowing for the inclusion of certain words in a previously studied list even when such words could not be identified, was demonstrated. © 1990.