Conceptual fluency selectively influences knowing

Research shows that Remember and Know judgments are effective measures of r ecollective experience. This article shows that Know responses can be selec tively affected by fluency of processing that is created using a conceptual manipulation. In a recognition test, studied and nonstudied words were pre ceded by semantically related or unrelated primes. Participants gave signif icantly more Know judgments to items with related primes than unrelated pri mes but Remember responses were unaffected. Know responses are discussed in terms of familiarity assumed to arise from fluency of processing which, in turn, may be created through various sources including conceptual processe s.