Abstract
False memories are memories that people believe indeed correspond to actual events from the past. Experimental investigation of false memories involves varied methodologies, including semantic and category associate technique. While the category method depends on the frequency of intra-list items, semantic associate measures semantic association of intra-list items. The present study compares false memory generation through category and semantic associates. Additionally, the mode of retrieval (recall, recognition) and retention interval (short, long) were manipulated to measure their effect on false memory generation. The result of the study suggests that retention interval and mode of retrieval did influence false memories generated using words (semantic associates) and line drawings (category associates).
Highlights
False memories are memories that people believe correspond to actual events from the past
1) For Recall Test: Mixed factorial within-subject repeated measure analysis of variance (ANOVA): 2 [Task Type: (SA, category associate (CA))] x 3 [Retention intervals: (Immediate, one day, and two days)] was conducted on the data obtained from the experiment
No significant role of retention interval between learning and retest was reported on critical lure retrievals for semantic and category task F(2, 20) = 0.262, p > .05, ƞ2 =
Summary
False memories are memories that people believe correspond to actual events from the past. The result of the study suggests that retention interval and mode of retrieval did influence false memories generated using words (semantic associates) and line drawings (category associates). Investigation on memory errors started at the beginning of the present century through the works of Alfred Binet (1857-1911) on suggestive questioning, Jean Piaget (1896-1980) on constructive texts and Frederic Bartlett (1886-1969) narrative texts They proposed the reconstructive nature of human memory which forms the basis of present-day false memory research. Research evidence reported that stronger associative strengths between list words led to higher recall of list words (true targets) and low intrusion recall (Deese, 1959a)
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