Open AccessYoung children produce categorical false recall without activation of the lure items
Author(s) -
Nabeta Tomohiro,
Wakabayashi Sumino,
Park ShinYoung,
Kamigaki Akiko,
Yamazaki Akira
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
japanese psychological research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.392
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1468-5884
pISSN - 0021-5368
DOI - 10.1111/jpr.12069
Subject(s) - recall , categorical variable , false memory , recall test , psychology , associative property , free recall , word (group theory) , priming (agriculture) , cognitive psychology , developmental psychology , linguistics , mathematics , statistics , philosophy , germination , botany , pure mathematics , biology
Individuals who study a list of words that are all related to another word that is not presented (a lure word) sometimes produce a false memory of having studied the lure word. The false memories are observed in lists of words that are in the same category as (category list) or associated with (associative list) a word that was not presented in an attempt to elicit false recall. The present study investigated whether young children create these types of false recall. Following the study of a categorical list, false recall was elicited in young children to the same degree as in adults, but studying an associative list elicited false recall only in adults. Furthermore, categorically related lure words did not have a priming effect in young children. These results suggest that the categorical false recall is produced via a different mechanism from the associative false recall.