Word Frequency Effect in False Memories

Göz, İlyas

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“…To illustrate, consider five manipulations that increase the frequency of target R judgments in simple recognition designs: replacing word lists with picture lists (e.g., Wagner, Gabrieli, & Verfaellie, 1997), increasing the number of presentations per target (e.g., Dewhurst & Hitch, 1997), decreasing list length (e.g., Rajaram, 1993), decreasing target frequency (e.g., Guttentag & Carroll, 1997), and testing younger versus older adults (e.g., Duarte, Graham, & Henson, 2010). In false memory experiments, as expected, all of these manipulations have been found to reduce false memory levels (e.g., Brainerd, Payne, Wright, & Reyna, 2003; Duarte et al, 2010; Gallo & Roediger, 2003; Goz, 2005; Schacter et al, 1999; Sugrue & Hayne, 2006).…”

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The two recollections.

Brainerd¹,

Gomes²,

Moran³

2014

Psychological Review

128

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Recollection is currently modeled as a univariate retrieval process in which memory probes provoke conscious awareness of contextual details of earlier target presentations. However, that conception cannot explain why some manipulations that increase recollection in recognition experiments suppress false memory in false memory experiments, whereas others increase false memory. Such contrasting effects can be explained if recollection is bivariate-if memory probes can provoke conscious awareness of target items per se, separately from awareness of contextual details, with false memory being suppressed by the former but increased by the latter. Interestingly, these 2 conceptions of recollection have coexisted for some time in different segments of the memory literature. Independent support for the dual-recollection hypothesis is provided by some surprising effects that it predicts, such as release from recollection rejection, false persistence, negative relations between false alarm rates and target remember/know judgments, and recollection without remembering. We implemented the hypothesis in 3 bivariate recollection models, which differ in the degree to which recollection is treated as a discrete or a graded process: a pure multinomial model, a pure signal detection model, and a mixed multinomial/signal detection model. The models were applied to a large corpus of conjoint recognition data, with fits being satisfactory when both recollection processes were present and unsatisfactory when either was deleted. Factor analyses of the models' parameter spaces showed that target and context recollection never loaded on a common factor, and the 3 models converged on the same process loci for the effects of important experimental manipulations. Thus, a variety of results were consistent with bivariate recollection. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2014 APA, all rights reserved).

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“…2010; Gallo & Roediger, 2003;Goz, 2005;Schacter et al, 1999;Sugrue & Hayne, 2006). However, suppose it is also possible for increases in target recollection to be inimical to accuracy, that enhancing recollective support for targets can also increase error rates for related distractors.…”

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The two recollections.

Brainerd¹,

Gomes²,

Moran³

2014

Psychological Review

128

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Word-frequency effects in long-term semantic priming and false memory

Sherman

Jordan

2011

British Journal of Psychology

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Several studies have used the lexical decision task (LDT) with the Deese-Roediger-McDermott (DRM) false-memory paradigm to investigate whether long-term semantic priming (LTSP) occurs following presentation of lists of items (e.g., bed, dream, snore) for related non-presented lure words (e.g., sleep). However, results have been mixed, with some studies observing priming, whilst others have not. The present study had four goals: (i) to investigate the existence of LTSP in the LDT; (ii) to investigate effects of LTSP on standard effects of word frequency on LDT performance; (iii) to investigate the effect, if any, of word frequency on true and false recall; and (iv) to compare LDT performance with performance on a subsequent free-recall task. The findings showed (i) a significant effect of LTSP on LDT performance; (ii) no effect of LTSP on standard effects of word frequency on LDT performance; (iii) no effect of word frequency on either true or false free recall; and (iv) a significant relationship between LDT and free-recall performance. Implications of these findings for understanding LTSP and false memories are discussed.

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Word Frequency Effect in False Memories

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The two recollections.

The two recollections.

Word-frequency effects in long-term semantic priming and false memory

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