ERIC Number: EJ871442
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Publication Date: 2010-Jan
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The Role of Memory Activation in Creating False Memories of Encoding Context
Arndt, Jason
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, v36 n1 p66-79 Jan 2010
Using 3 experiments, I examined false memory for encoding context by presenting Deese-Roediger-McDermott themes (Deese, 1959; Roediger & McDermott, 1995) in usual-looking fonts and by testing related, but unstudied, lure items in a font that was shown during encoding. In 2 of the experiments, testing lure items in the font used to study their associated themes increased false recognition relative to testing lure items in a font that was used to study a different lure's theme. Further, studying a larger number of associates exacerbated the influence of testing lure items in a font used to study their associated themes. Finally, testing lures in a font that was encoded many times, but was not used to present the lures' studied associates, increased lure errors more than testing lures in a font that was encoded relatively fewer times. These results favor the explanation of false recognition offered by global-matching models of recognition memory over the explanations of activation-monitoring theory and fuzzy-trace theory. (Contains 1 footnote and 5 figures.)
Descriptors: Testing, Recognition (Psychology), Experiments, Memory, Cognitive Processes, Models, Probability, Cues, Stimuli, Semantics, College Students, Higher Education, Phenomenology, Test Items, Educational Psychology
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