Part-set cuing of false memories.

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Part-set cuing inhibition describes the common finding that re-presenting items from a word list can reduce subjects' overall recall performance for studied items. Do part-set cuing effects occur for false memories as well? In the present experiments, subjects studied lists of words drawn from Roediger and McDermott (1995). After studying each list, subjects completed math problems and then recalled the list items either with or without accompanying list cues. In Experiment 1, the recall cues consisted of items drawn randomly from the original list. In Experiment 2, an additional type of cued recall task was added in which the even numbered list items were used as cues. Taken together, these experiments demonstrate robust part-set cuing effects for critical nonpresented items. In addition, they show that whereas recall of critical words is reduced by the presence of cues at test, retrieval cues do not affect critical words and studied words in exactly the same manner.

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Author/s: Reysen, Matthew B (MB); Nairne, James S (JS);

Affiliation: Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-1364, USA.

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Publication Type: Journal Article

Journal: Psychonomic bulletin & review (Psychon Bull Rev), published in United States. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2002-Jun; vol 9 (issue 2) : pp 389-93

Dates: Created 2002/07/17; Completed 2003/01/30; Revised 2004/11/17;

PMID: 12120805, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 12/26/2008)

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