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Manipulating remember and know judgements of autobiographical memories: an investigation of false memory creation
Author(s) -
Hyman Ira E.,
Gilstrap Livia L.,
Decker Kevin,
Wilkinson Carol
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
applied cognitive psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.719
H-Index - 100
eISSN - 1099-0720
pISSN - 0888-4080
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1099-0720(199808)12:4<371::aid-acp572>3.0.co;2-u
Subject(s) - psychology , recall , autobiographical memory , cognitive psychology , mental image , event (particle physics) , affect (linguistics) , memory errors , false memory , cognition , eyewitness memory , eyewitness testimony , communication , physics , quantum mechanics , neuroscience
We investigated memory qualities that affect judgements of whether a recollection is a personal memory or self‐knowledge. In Experiment 1, college students described three types of childhood experiences: remembered, known but not remembered, and unsure whether remembered or known. After describing the experiences, they rated their memories on several characteristics (e.g. visual detail, emotion). Remembered events were rated as containing more information on almost all the dimensions than the known events (unsure events were rated between the other two types of events). Based on the observed differences, in Experiments 2 and 3 we manipulated remember versus know ratings. Participants described a remember, know, or unsure event. Some then formed a mental image of the event while others did not. Creation and description of a mental image led participants to rate known events closer to remember. The remember/know rating is a source‐monitoring decision based on the quality of the memory. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.