False recognition of instruction-set lures |
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| Authors: | Evan T Curtis Chrissy M Chubala Jackie Spear Randall K Jamieson William E Hockley Matthew J C Crump |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Psychology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada;2. Department of Psychology, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON, Canada;3. Department of Psychology, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, New York City, NY, USA |
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| Abstract: | False remembering has been examined using a variety of procedures, including the Deese-Roediger-McDermott procedure, the false fame procedure and the two-list recognition procedure. We present six experiments in a different empirical framework examining false recognition of words included in the experimental instructions (instruction-set lures). The data show that participants' false alarm rate to instruction-set lures was twice their false alarm rate to standard lures. That result was statistically robust even when (1) the relative strength of targets to instruction-set lures was increased, (2) participants were warned about the instruction-set lures, (3) the instruction-set lures were camouflaged in the study instructions and (4) the instruction-set lures were presented verbally at study but visually at test. False recognition of instruction-set lures was only mitigated when participants were distracted between encountering the instruction-set lures and studying the training list. The results confirm the ease with which recognition succumbs to familiarity and demonstrate the robustness of false recognition. |
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| Keywords: | Recognition False memory Source monitoring |
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