scholarly journals The influence of forward and backward associative strength on false recognition.

2012 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 747-756 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason Arndt
Keyword(s):  
Associative Strength ◽  
False Recognition ◽  
Backward Associative Strength

scholarly journals Questioning the Role of Forward Associative Strength in False Memories: Evidence From Deese-Roediger-McDermott Lists With Three Critical Lures

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Soledad Beato ◽  
Jason Arndt
Keyword(s):  
False Memory ◽  
Associative Strength ◽  
False Recognition ◽  
False Memories ◽  
Free Association ◽  
Strong Relationship ◽  
Drm Paradigm ◽  
Backward Associative Strength

We report an experiment examining the factors that produce false recognition in the Deese-Roediger-McDermott (DRM) paradigm. We selectively manipulated the probability that critical lures produce study items in free association, known as forward associative strength (FAS), while controlling the probability that study items produce critical lures in free association, known as backward associative strength (BAS). Results showed that false recognition of critical lures failed to differ between strong and weak FAS conditions. Follow-up correlational analyses further supported this outcome, showing that FAS was not correlated with false recognition, despite substantial variability in both variables across our stimulus sets. However, these correlational analyses did produce a significant and strong relationship between BAS and false recognition. These results support views that propose false memory is produced by activation spreading from study items to critical lures during encoding, which leads critical lures to be confused with episodically-experienced events.

Associative Processes in False Recall and False Recognition

1997 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 231-237 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kerry J. Robinson ◽  
Henry L. Roediger
Keyword(s):  
Associative Strength ◽  
False Recognition ◽  
List Length ◽  
False Recall ◽  
Associative Processes ◽  
The Mean

Studying a list of words associated to a critical nonpresented word results in high rates of false recall and false recognition for that nonpresented item (Roediger & McDermott, 1995) Two experiments examined the effect of manipulating the number of associates presented on false recall and later false recognition of a nonpresented item In Experiment 1, associate lists of varying lengths were studied, in Experiment 2, list length was held constant and the number of associates within the list was manipulated In both experiments, the rate of critical intrusions in recall increased steadily with increasing number of associates studied Most notably, the filler words used in Experiment 2 to equate the list lengths did not affect the rate of critical intrusions, although they did depress recall of studied words False recall and false recognition appear to be tied to the total, not the mean, associative strength of items in the list

Children's Emotional False Memories

2007 ◽  
Vol 18 (10) ◽  
pp. 856-860 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark L. Howe
Keyword(s):  
Associative Strength ◽  
False Recognition ◽  
False Negative ◽  
False Memories ◽  
False Recall ◽  
Relational Processing ◽  
Emotional Information ◽  
True Negative ◽  
Neutral Information ◽  
Children's Memory

Eight- and 12-year-old children were presented with neutral and negative emotional Deese-Roediger-McDermott lists equated on familiarity and associative strength. Both recall and recognition (A') measures were obtained. Recall measures exhibited the usual age increments in true and false recollection. True neutral items were better recalled and recognized than true negative emotional items. Although the children showed more false recall for neutral than for negative emotional lists, false recognition was higher for negative emotional than for neutral items. A' analyses also showed that whereas true neutral information and false neutral information were easily discriminated by children regardless of age, the same was not the case for true and false negative emotional information. Together, these results suggest that although children may be able to censor negative emotional information at recall, such information promotes relational processing in children's memory, making true and false emotional information less discriminable overall.

'Wisdom'? ik Zeg 'Old', Jij Zegt 'Tooth'

2010 ◽  
Vol 84-85 ◽  
pp. 145-154
Author(s):  
Bregtje Seton
Keyword(s):  
Lexical Decision ◽  
Lexical Decision Task ◽  
Associative Strength ◽  
Native Speakers ◽  
Decision Task ◽  
Associative Priming ◽  
Word Associations ◽  
Conceptual Representations ◽  
Native Speakers Of English ◽  
Backward Associative Strength

Since concepts can be regarded as associative links to lexical items, conceptual representations can be measured verbally by looking at word associations. Word associations from native speakers of Dutch and from native speakers of English were used to form two priming conditions for an associative-priming study with a lexical-decision task. Participants were a low-proficiency group of Dutch students of English, a high-proficiency group of Dutch students of English and a group of native speakers of English. Results showed variation between different (groups of) items, suggesting that highly proficient students of English perform native-like on items which have different connotations in Dutch and English, and that native speakers of English show inhibitory responses on items with backward associative strength, whereas both Dutch groups did not show this inhibition.

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