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TY - JOUR
T1 - The role of associative strength in children's false memory illusions
AU - Howe, Mark L.
AU - Wimmer, Marina C.
AU - Blease, Katrina
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - The effects of associative strength on rates of 7- and 11-year-old children's true and false memories were examined when category and Deese-Roediger-McDermott (DRM) lists were used to cue the same critical lure. Backward associative strength (BAS) was varied such that the category and DRM lists had the same strength (DRM=category), DRM lists had more BAS (DRMcategory), or category lists had more BAS (DRMcategory). If BAS drives children's false memories then BAS, not the type of relation across items in a list, should determine false memory production. The results confirmed this prediction using both recall and recognition measures: (1) both true and false memories increased with age, (2) true memory was better for category than DRM lists but there were no differences for false memory, and (3) at all ages, false memories varied predictably with changes in BAS but were unaffected by list-type manipulations. These findings are discussed in the context of models of false memory development.
AB - The effects of associative strength on rates of 7- and 11-year-old children's true and false memories were examined when category and Deese-Roediger-McDermott (DRM) lists were used to cue the same critical lure. Backward associative strength (BAS) was varied such that the category and DRM lists had the same strength (DRM=category), DRM lists had more BAS (DRMcategory), or category lists had more BAS (DRMcategory). If BAS drives children's false memories then BAS, not the type of relation across items in a list, should determine false memory production. The results confirmed this prediction using both recall and recognition measures: (1) both true and false memories increased with age, (2) true memory was better for category than DRM lists but there were no differences for false memory, and (3) at all ages, false memories varied predictably with changes in BAS but were unaffected by list-type manipulations. These findings are discussed in the context of models of false memory development.
KW - DRM paradigm
KW - False memories
KW - Associative-activation theory
KW - Memory development
KW - Children's false memory
KW - SPREADING ACTIVATION THEORY
KW - REMEMBERING WORDS
KW - ADULTS
KW - RECOGNITION
KW - RECALL
KW - LISTS
KW - TRUE
U2 - 10.1080/09658210802438474
DO - 10.1080/09658210802438474
M3 - Journal article
VL - 17
SP - 8
EP - 16
JO - Memory
JF - Memory
SN - 0965-8211
IS - 1
ER -