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Inducing and reducing false memories: A Swedish version of the Deese–Roediger–McDermott paradigm
Author(s) -
Johansson Mikael,
Stenberg Georg
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9450
pISSN - 0036-5564
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9450.00305
Subject(s) - false memory , psychology , recall , cognitive psychology , word (group theory) , social psychology , linguistics , philosophy
Participants tend to falsely remember a nonpresented critical word after having studied a list of the word’s primary associates. We present here a Swedish version of the Deese–Roediger–McDermott paradigm, which provides a tractable method of experimentally inducing and investigating such illusory memories. In Experiment 1 it was demonstrated that the constructed stimulus material induced highly reliable false–recall and false–recognition effects, and, moreover, that veridical and false memories were associated with a similar phenomenological experience of remembering. The results from Experiment 2 indicated that the susceptibility to false recognition can be substantially reduced when participants are explicitly required to monitor the sources of their memories. These findings are consistent with predictions derived from the source–monitoring framework.