Gudjonsson has conducted a timely and welcome survey of BFMS members, who are to be commended for their frank responses. However, their answers can provide only partial information about the nature, circumstances and consequences of recovered memories. Attention is drawn to features of the way the d
False recall and false memory: the effects of instructions on memory errors
โ Scribed by Beth A. Newstead; Stephen E. Newstead
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 146 KB
- Volume
- 12
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0888-4080
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โฆ Synopsis
An experiment is reported using a list-learning paradigm in which all the words have a common associate, which is known to be frequently but erroneously recalled. Four experimental conditions were used. One group was instructed to think about the meanings of the words, another to relate them to personal experience, another to create images of the words, and another to chain the words into a sentence. Both thinking about the meaning and chaining increased recall of the words actually presented, but in none of the conditions was there any eect on false recall. The implications and relevance of these ยฎndings to the controversy over false memories are discussed.
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