Home > Research > Publications & Outputs > Category repetition and false recognition: Effe...
View graph of relations

Category repetition and false recognition: Effects of instance frequency and category size.

Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

Published
<mark>Journal publication date</mark>1/01/2001
<mark>Journal</mark>Journal of Memory and Language
Issue number1
Volume44
Number of pages15
Pages (from-to)153-167
Publication StatusPublished
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

Three experiments investigated the basis of false recognition errors caused by category repetition. The subjective nature of the false alarms was measured by asking participants to make “remember-know” decisions to each item they judged as “old.” Experiment 1 replicated the finding by Dewhurst and Anderson (1999) that false remember responses to nonstudied category members increased with the number of items from the same category that were presented at encoding. Participants in Experiment 2 made more false remember responses to category members of high instance frequency than to members of low instance frequency. Participants in Experiment 3 made more false remember responses to members of small categories than to members of large categories. These findings support the view that the false positive remember responses result from associative responses made to items presented at encoding.

Bibliographic note

RAE_import_type : Journal article RAE_uoa_type : Psychology