A Memory Trace Strength Based Account of Misattribution Errors in Eyewitness Testimony

The Effect of Memory Trace Strength on Suggestibility

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology ◽

10.1006/jecp.1995.1034 ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 60 (1) ◽

pp. 116-128 ◽

Cited By ~ 110

Author(s):

Kathy Pezdek ◽

Chantal Roe

Keyword(s):

Memory Trace ◽

Trace Strength

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The effects of memory trace strength on eyewitness recall in children with and without intellectual disabilities

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology ◽

10.1016/j.jecp.2004.05.002 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 89 (1) ◽

pp. 53-71 ◽

Cited By ~ 15

Author(s):

Lucy A. Henry ◽

Gisli H. Gudjonsson

Keyword(s):

Intellectual Disabilities ◽

Memory Trace ◽

Trace Strength

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Processing domain, encoding elaboration, and memory trace strength

Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior ◽

10.1016/s0022-5371(77)80005-4 ◽

1977 ◽

Vol 16 (1) ◽

pp. 29-43 ◽

Cited By ~ 19

Author(s):

Susan R. Goldman ◽

James W. Pellegrino

Keyword(s):

Memory Trace ◽

Trace Strength

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Memory trace strength and response biasing in short-term motor memory

Memory & Cognition ◽

10.3758/bf03198211 ◽

1975 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. 58-62 ◽

Cited By ~ 17

Author(s):

George E. Stelmach ◽

J. A. Scott Kelso

Keyword(s):

Memory Trace ◽

Motor Memory ◽

Short Term ◽

Trace Strength

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Adult Eyewitness Testimony

10.1017/cbo9780511759192 ◽

1994 ◽

Cited By ~ 34

Keyword(s):

Eyewitness Testimony

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Suppressed, but Not Forgotten

Swiss Journal of Psychology ◽

10.1024/1421-0185/a000033 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 70 (1) ◽

pp. 5-11 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Beat Meier ◽

Anja König ◽

Samuel Parak ◽

Katharina Henke

Keyword(s):

Memory Trace ◽

Thought Suppression ◽

Test Phase ◽

Indirect Test ◽

Final Test ◽

Test Experiment ◽

And Control ◽

Cue Words ◽

The Impact

This study investigates the impact of thought suppression over a 1-week interval. In two experiments with 80 university students each, we used the think/no-think paradigm in which participants initially learn a list of word pairs (cue-target associations). Then they were presented with some of the cue words again and should either respond with the target word or avoid thinking about it. In the final test phase, their memory for the initially learned cue-target pairs was tested. In Experiment 1, type of memory test was manipulated (i.e., direct vs. indirect). In Experiment 2, type of no-think instructions was manipulated (i.e., suppress vs. substitute). Overall, our results showed poorer memory for no-think and control items compared to think items across all experiments and conditions. Critically, however, more no-think than control items were remembered after the 1-week interval in the direct, but not in the indirect test (Experiment 1) and with thought suppression, but not thought substitution instructions (Experiment 2). We suggest that during thought suppression a brief reactivation of the learned association may lead to reconsolidation of the memory trace and hence to better retrieval of suppressed than control items in the long term.

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Perceptual Effects and Recollective Experience in Face Recognition

Experimental Psychology (formerly Zeitschrift für Experimentelle Psychologie) ◽

10.1027/1618-3169.52.3.224 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 52 (3) ◽

pp. 224-231 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Chrisanthi Nega

Keyword(s):

Face Recognition ◽

Recognition Memory ◽

Congruency Effect ◽

Facial Recognition ◽

Memory Systems ◽

Study Time ◽

Perceptual Fluency ◽

Recollective Experience ◽

Trace Strength ◽

Size Congruency

Abstract. Four experiments were conducted investigating the effect of size congruency on facial recognition memory, measured by remember, know and guess responses. Different study times were employed, that is extremely short (300 and 700 ms), short (1,000 ms), and long times (5,000 ms). With the short study time (1,000 ms) size congruency occurred in knowing. With the long study time the effect of size congruency occurred in remembering. These results support the distinctiveness/fluency account of remembering and knowing as well as the memory systems account, since the size congruency effect that occurred in knowing under conditions that facilitated perceptual fluency also occurred independently in remembering under conditions that facilitated elaborative encoding. They do not support the idea that remember and know responses reflect differences in trace strength.

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