Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2004
Publication Title
Journal of Experimental Psychology
First Page
787
Last Page
795
DOI
http://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/0278-7393.30.4.787
Abstract
Two accounts explain why studying pictures reduces false memories within the Deese-Roediger-McDermott paradigm (J. Deese, 1959; H. L. Roediger & K. B. McDermott, 1995). The impoverished relational-encoding account suggests that studying pictures interferes with the encoding of relational information, which is the primary basis for false memories in this paradigm. Alternatively, the distinctiveness heuristic assumes that critical lures are actively withheld by the use of a retrieval strategy. When participants were given inclusion recall instructions to report studied items as well as related items, they still reported critical lures less often after picture encoding than they did after word encoding. As the impoverished relational-encoding account suggests, critical lures appear less likely to come to mind after picture encoding than they do after word encoding. However, the results from a postrecall recognition test provide evidence in favor of the distinctiveness heuristic.
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Copyright © 2004 American Psychological Association.
This is a post-print version of an article originally published in Journal of Experimental Psychology, 2004, Volume 30, Issue 4.
. The version of record is available through: American Psychology Association. "This article may not exactly replicate the final version published in the APA journal. It is not the copy of record."Recommended Citation
Hege, A. C. G., & Dodson, C. S. (2004). Why distinctive information reduces false memories: Evidence for both impoverished relational-encoding and distinctiveness heuristic accounts. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 30, 787-795.