Inducing and reducing false memories: A Swedish version of the Deese-Roediger-McDermott paradigm

• Participants tend to falsely remember a nonpresented critical word after having studied a list of the word's primary associates. We present here a Swedish version of the Deese-Roediger-McDermott paradigm, which provides a tractable method of experimentally inducing and investigating such illusory memories. In Experiment 1 it was demonstrated that the constructed stimulus material induced highly reliable false-recall and false-recognition effects, and, moreover, that veridical and false memories were associated with a similar phenomenological experience of remembering. The results from Experiment 2 indicated that the susceptibility to false recognition can be substantially reduced when participants are explicitly required to monitor the sources of their memories. These findings are consistent with predictions derived from the source-monitoring framework.

Ämnesord

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Psykologi (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Psychology (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

Mental Recall

Male

Suggestion

Illusions

Female

Human

Adult

recognition

suggestion

recall

randomization

source monitoring adult

False memories

memory illusion

defense mechanism

article

Repression

Recognition (Psychology)

Random Allocation

Support

Non-U.S. Gov't

illusion

male

female

human

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