False Memory in a Short-Term Memory Task

The Deese/Roediger-McDermott (DRM; Roediger & McDermott, 1995 ) paradigm reliably elicits false memories for critical nonpresented words in recognition tasks. The present studies used a Sternberg (1966) task with DRM lists to determine whether false memories occur in short-term memory tasks and...

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Published in:Experimental psychology 2007, Vol.54 (1), p.62-70
Main Authors: Coane, Jennifer H, McBride, Dawn M, Raulerson III, Bascom A, Jordan, J. Scott
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
False Memory
Human
Humans
Memory, Short-Term
Reaction Time
Repression, Psychology
Semantics
Short Term Memory
Suggestion
Verbal Learning
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Summary:The Deese/Roediger-McDermott (DRM; Roediger & McDermott, 1995 ) paradigm reliably elicits false memories for critical nonpresented words in recognition tasks. The present studies used a Sternberg (1966) task with DRM lists to determine whether false memories occur in short-term memory tasks and to assess the contribution of latency data in the measurement of false memories. Subjects studied three, five, or seven items from DRM lists and responded to a single probe (studied or nonstudied). In both experiments, critical lures were falsely recognized more often than nonpresented weak associates. Latency data indicated that correct rejections of critical lures were slower than correct rejections of weakly related items at all set sizes. False alarms to critical lures were slower than hits to list items. Latency data can distinguish veridical and false memories in a short-term memory task. Results are discussed in terms of activation-monitoring models of false memory.
ISSN:1618-3169
2190-5142
DOI:10.1027/1618-3169.54.1.62