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SEMANTIC FALSE MEMORIES IN THE FORM OF DERIVED RELATIONAL INTRUSIONS FOLLOWING TRAINING
Author(s) -
Guinther Paul M.,
Dougher Michael J.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
journal of the experimental analysis of behavior
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.75
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1938-3711
pISSN - 0022-5002
DOI - 10.1901/jeab.2010.93-329
Subject(s) - recall , psychology , free recall , cognitive psychology , test (biology) , cognition , recall test , natural language processing , computer science , paleontology , neuroscience , biology
Contemporary behavior analytic research is making headway in characterizing memory phenomena that typically have been characterized by cognitive models, and the current study extends this development by producing “false memories” in the form of functional equivalence responding. A match‐to‐sample training procedure was administered in order to encourage participants to treat groups of unrelated English words as being interchangeable. Following training, participants were presented with a list of words from within one of the groups for a free recall test and a recognition test. Results showed that participants were more likely to falsely recall and recognize words that had been assigned to the same group as the list words during prior training, relative to words not assigned to the same group and relative to words that co‐occurred with list words. These results indicate that semantic relatedness can be experimentally manipulated in order to produce specific false memories.