Does Studying a Semantically Related List of Words Produce False Memories?(Psycology)
Date Submitted: 09/10/2006 05:14:59
Category: / History / European History
Length: 5 pages (1279 words)
Category: / History / European History
Length: 5 pages (1279 words)
Abstract
One hundred and sixty-six students taking Psycology105 were involved in an experiment which tests whether false memories can be produced by studying a list of words that were related semantically. It was assumed that the lure would have a high rate of remember responses. The results from the experiment proved that the lure is likely to produce false recalls, by studying semantically related lists.
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…Spreading action and arousal of false memories. In H. L. Roediger, J.S. Nairne, I Neath, & A. M. Surprenant (eds.), The nature of remembering: Essays in honor of Robert G. Crowder. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Watson, J. M., Balota, D. A., & Roediger, H. L. (2003). Creating false memories with hybrid lists of semantic and phonological associates: Over- additive false memories produced by converging associative networks. Journal of Memory and Language, 49(1), 95-118.
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