Poor working memory predicts false memories

Abstract

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Providing eyewitnesses with initial retrieval support: what works at immediate and subsequent recall?

“…This indicates that there are substantial differences in the potential of the interviews to elicit information from participants. Given the homogeneity of each sample, this is unlikely to reflect individual differences in memory performance alone, because undergraduates are not likely to differ much in this cognitive task (see Peters, Jelicic, Verbeek, & Merckelbach, 2007). Rather, this could reflect differences in the control of the report option, that is, the readiness to report details from memory (Koriat & Goldsmith, 1996).…”

Individual differences in false memory from misinformation: Personality characteristics and their interactions with cognitive abilities

“…Poor general memory may lead to increased susceptibility to source-monitoring errors, thus resulting in more false memories (e.g., Peters, Jelicic, Verbeek, & Merckelbach, 2007;Watson, Bunting, Poole, & Conway, 2005). Indeed, Jaschinski and Wentura (2002) found that working memory was negatively related to false memory from misinformation.…”

Mood-congruent true and false memory: Effects of depression

“…Such automatic activation is more difficult to inhibit than the activation associated with material presented episodically (the list items themselves) (e.g., see Kimball & Bjork, 2002). Moreover, because poor working memory is associated with increased recollection of automatically activated critical lures (Peters, Jelicic, Verbeek, & Merckelbach, 2007), and previous research has shown that there are depression-associated deficits in working memory (Joormann & Gotlib, 2008), it may not be surprising to see that longstanding depression is associated with higher rates of false recollection for depression-related concepts.…”