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Thinking of critical words during study is unnecessary for false memory in the Deese, Roediger, and McDermott procedure.
Full Abstract
Do participants in the Deese, Roediger, and McDermott (DRM) procedure demonstrate false memory because they think of nonpresented critical words during study and confuse them with words that were actually presented? In two experiments, 160 participants studied eight visually presented DRM lists at a rate of 2 s or 5 s per word. Half of the participants rehearsed silently:
the other half rehearsed overtly. Following study, the participants' memory for the lists was tested by recall or recognition. Typical false memory results were obtained for both memory measures. More important, two new results were observed. First, a large majority of the overt-rehearsal participants spontaneously rehearsed approximately half of the critical words during study. Second, critical-word rehearsal at study enhanced subsequent false recall, but it had no effect on false recognition or remember judgments for falsely recognized critical words. Thinking of critical words during study was unnecessary for producing false memory.
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Author/s: Seamon, John G (JG); Lee, Ihno A (IA); Toner, Sarah K (SK); Wheeler, Rachel H (RH); Goodkind, Madeleine S (MS); Birch, Antoine D (AD);
Affiliation: Department of Psychology, Wesleyan Univeristy, Middletown, CT 06459, USA. jseamon(-atsign-)wesleyan.edu
Journal and publication information
Publication Type: Journal Article
Journal: Psychological science : a journal of the American Psychological Society / APS (Psychol Sci), published in United States. (Language: eng)
Reference: 2002-Nov; vol 13 (issue 6) : pp 526-31
Dates: Created 2002/11/14; Completed 2003/03/05; Revised 2004/11/17;
PMID: 12430836, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)
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