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The relation between Remember/Know/New (RKN) &<br />

Same/Similar/New(SSN)<br />

The purpose of using the SSN paradigm is to assess the level of detail<br />

in participant’s memory, whereas the purpose of using the RKN paradigm is to<br />

assess the level of subjective awareness in the participant’s memory. Even<br />

though the two paradigms have different criteria for giving a particular<br />

response they have a similar structure of a three level discrimination task which<br />

warrants a comparison between the two methodologies. This may provide<br />

further insight into the way in which participants interpret the task instructions<br />

in each case. A theoretical relationship between SSN and RKN responses was<br />

proposed by examining the criteria by which participants should respond if<br />

they are following the instructions for the tasks (See Table 3.5). This<br />

relationship was considered only for items that would be the same at study and<br />

test as these would be targets for some form of recognition in both tasks. In<br />

contrast a similar item would be given a response indicating some form of<br />

recognition in the SSN task, whereas the appropriate response in the RKN task<br />

should indicate no recognition memory because the item has not been seen<br />

before. New items would form the entire set of distractors for the SSN task but<br />

only a subset of distractors for the RKN task.<br />

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