Fuzzy-Trace Theory and False Memory |
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| Authors: | C.J. Brainerd,& V.F. Reyna |
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| Affiliation: | Department of Surgery and Department of Special Education, Rehabilitation, and School Psychology, University of Arizona, Arizona,; Department of Medicine and the Department of Surgery University of Arizona, Arizona |
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| Abstract: | A key problem confronting theories of false memory is that false-memory phenomena are so diverse: Some are characteristic of controlled laboratory tasks, others of everyday life; some occur for traumatic events with legal consequences, others for innocuous events; some are characteristic of one developmental level, others of another developmental level. Fuzzy-trace theory explains false memories via a small set of principles that implement a single representational distinction. Those principles generate new predictions, some of which are counterintuitive. |
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| Keywords: | fuzzy-trace theory false memory explanation prediction |
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