Recollection rejection: False-memory editing in children and adults.
- 1 January 2003
- journal article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Psychological Review
- Vol. 110 (4), 762-784
- https://doi.org/10.1037/0033-295x.110.4.762
Abstract
Mechanisms for editing false events out of memory reports have fundamental implications for theories of false memory and for best practice in applied domains in which false reports must be minimized (e.g., forensic psychological interviews, sworn testimony). A mechanism posited in fuzzy-trace theory, recollection rejection, is considered. A process analysis of false-memory editing is presented, which assumes that false-but-gist-consistent events (e.g., the word SOFA, when the word COUCH was experienced) sometimes cue the retrieval of verbatim traces of the corresponding true events (COUCH), generating mismatches that counteract the high familiarity of false-but-gist-consistent events. Empirical support comes from 2 qualitative phenomena: recollective suppression of semantic false memory and inverted-U relations between retrieval time and semantic false memory. Further support comes from 2 quantitative methodologies: conjoint recognition and receiver operating characteristics. The analysis also predicts a novel false-memory phenomenon (erroneous recollection rejection), in which true events are inappropriately edited out of memory reports.Keywords
This publication has 108 references indexed in Scilit:
- Memory Processes Underlying Misinformation Effects in Child WitnessesDevelopmental Review, 2002
- Judgments of frequency and recency: How they relate to reports of subjective awareness.Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2001
- WHEN TRUE MEMORIES SUPPRESS FALSE MEMORIES: EFFECTS OF AGEINGCognitive Neuropsychology, 1999
- What is the connection between true and false memories? The differential roles of interitem associations in recall and recognition.Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 1999
- The effects of repeated experience on children's suggestibility.Developmental Psychology, 1999
- Children's and Adults' Spontaneous False Memories: Long-Term Persistence and Mere-Testing EffectsChild Development, 1998
- Children's Susceptibility to Repeated Questions: How Misinformation Changes Children's Answers and Their MindsApplied Developmental Science, 1998
- Developmental patterns of eyewitness memory and suggestibility: An ecologically based short-term longitudinal study.Law and Human Behavior, 1995
- List-length effect: Recognition accuracy and variance of underlying distributions.Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 1994
- Development of verbatim and gist memory for numbers.Developmental Psychology, 1994