Reported serial positions of true and illusory memories in the Deese/Roediger/McDermott paradigm
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
8-8-2016
Abstract
One of the easiest ways to induce illusory memories in the laboratory is to use the Deese–Roediger–McDermott (DRM) word-list paradigm. Researchers have used this paradigm not only to study people's memories of stimuli that were not actually presented, but also to study the phenomenological qualities of these illusions. In four experiments, the current investigation explored a phenomenological quality of illusory memories that has received almost no attention, specifically, temporality. A serial position task was incorporated into the DRM paradigm to examine temporal attributes of participants' true and false memories. Effects of list strength, presentation order, and types of warnings were examined. Results showed consistent serial position responses for true and false memories. However, only responses for illusory memories were affected by manipulations at study. The current findings thus lend support to encoding-based explanations of false recollections.
Publication Title
Memory
Volume
24
Issue
7
First Page
865
Last Page
883
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
10.1080/09658211.2015.1059455
PubMed ID
26275167
ISSN
09658211
E-ISSN
14640686
Citation Information
Prohaska, DelValle, D., Toglia, M. P., & Pittman, A. E. (2016). Reported serial positions of true and illusory memories in the Deese/Roediger/McDermott paradigm. Memory (Hove), 24(7), 865–883. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2015.1059455