Knowledge types underlying false recall in the Deese/Roediger-McDermott paradigm

Cann, David R.; Masamune, Ken; Katz, Albert N.

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“…The fourth challenge is that the distinction between associative and semantic processing of word lists is a distinction without a difference because associative processing is semantic processing. As Cann et al (2006) and Brainerd et al (2007) have recently noted for DRM lists and as Anisfeld and Knapp (1968) noted long ago for word association generally, as backward associations between list words and missing words increase, so do familiar semantic relations such as antonymy, synonymy, functionality, emotionality, and so forth (see Table 2). Thus, if the backward association of door to window causes the latter to be processed, to some extent, when the former is studied, semantic relations (e.g., entity relations) are processed as well.…”

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confidence: 71%

“…The individual relations that are grouped within each category are summarized in Table 1. When a memory experiment involves word lists (or pictures of corresponding words), lists can be readily scored for the presence of the pairwise relations in Table 1, and those scores predict aspects of memory performance (e.g., Cann, McRae, & Katz, 2006). With more complex materials, such as spoken or written discourse, the other two levels of meaning connection can be measured (e.g., Kintsch, Welsch, Schmalhofer, & Zimny, 1990).…”

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“…These lists are remarkably dense in word–word semantic relations between missing words and list words. Cann et al (2006) and Brainerd, Yang, Howe, Reyna, and Mills (2008) scored the 55 DRM lists in the Roediger, Watson, McDermott, and Gallo (2001) norms for the presence of the six semantic relations in Wu and Barsalou’s (2007) typology. Their results are shown in Table 2.…”

Section: Review Of Theory: Opponent Processes and False-memory Develo...mentioning

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Developmental reversals in false memory: A review of data and theory.

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2008

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Can susceptibility to false memory and suggestion increase dramatically with age? The authors review the theoretical and empirical literatures on this counterintuitive possibility. Until recently, the well-documented pattern was that susceptibility to memory distortion had been found to decline between early childhood and young adulthood. That pattern is the centerpiece of much expert testimony in legal cases involving child witnesses and victims. During the past 5 years, however, several experiments have been published that test fuzzy-trace theory's prediction that some of the most powerful forms of false memory in adults will be greatly attenuated in children. Those experiments show that in some common domains of experience, in which false memories are rooted in meaning connections among events, age increases in false memory are the rule and are sometimes accompanied by net declines in the accuracy of memory. As these experiments are strongly theory-driven, they have established that developmental improvements in the formation of meaning connections are necessary and sufficient to produce age increases in false memory.

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Section: Associative Activationmentioning

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Section: Gist Sensitivity and Age Increases In False Memorymentioning

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Developmental reversals in false memory: A review of data and theory.

Brainerd

Reyna

Ceci

2008

Psychological Bulletin

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“…Strong lists, which produce higher levels of false memory in adults, are semantically richer than weak ones because, on average, their critical distractors are more familiar and meaningful (Brainerd et al, 2008c), they supply more of the situational gist that has been causally linked to higher levels of false memory (Cann et al, 2006(Cann et al, , 2010, and they have higher BAS levels (Roediger et al, 2001). Concerning the latter property, it has long been understood that semantic relatedness increases as associative relatedness (backward or forward) increases (Anisfeld & Knapp, 1968;Grossman & Eagle, 1970), and in DRM research, Brainerd et al (2008c) found that 15 semantic properties of words are reliable covariates of BAS and forward associative strength (FAS).…”

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Theoretical and forensic implications of developmental studies of the DRM illusion

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In the study of false memory, developmental research on the Deese-Roediger-McDermott (DRM) illusion has played a pivotal role in theory evaluation and forensic application. The extensive developmental DRM literature (55 experiments published in English-language journals) provided the first clear evidence that false memories can increase dramatically from early childhood onward, whereas traditional ideas about cognitive development predict steady declines.

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Semantic processing in “associative” false memory

Brainerd

Yang

Reyna

et al. 2008

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

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We studied the semantic properties of a class of illusions, of which the Deese/Roediger-McDermott (DRM) paradigm is the most prominent example, in which subjects falsely remember words that are associates of studied words. We analyzed DRM materials for 16 dimensions of semantic content and assessed the ability of these dimensions to predict interlist variability in false memory. For the more general class of illusions, we analyzed pairs of presented and unpresented words that varied in associative strength for the presence of these same 16 semantic properties. DRM materials proved to be exceptionally rich in meaning, as indexed by these semantic properties. Variability in false recall, false recognition, and backward associative strength loaded on a single semantic factor (familiarity/meaningfulness), whereas variability in true recall loaded on a quite different factor (imagery/concreteness). For word association generally, 15 semantic properties varied reliably with forward or backward association between words. Implications for semantic versus associative processing in this class of illusions, for dual-process theories, and for semantic properties of word associations are discussed.

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Knowledge types underlying false recall in the Deese/Roediger-McDermott paradigm

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Developmental reversals in false memory: A review of data and theory.

Developmental reversals in false memory: A review of data and theory.

Theoretical and forensic implications of developmental studies of the DRM illusion

Semantic processing in “associative” false memory

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