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Prominent memory researcher from Australia
Who is Donald Thompson ?
Our ability to distinguish among the sources of our retrieved memories, in both the external and internal world
What is Source Monitoring ?
Rapidly induces a false memory
What is The Deese-Roediger-McDermott (DRM) procedure ?
Memories that people have that do not correspond to events as they actually happened
What are false memories ?
False memories of events are induced in participants by repeatedly asking them about events they never experienced
What is False Memory Induction Procedure ?
Inferred that false memories arise when people with vivid visual imaginations who believe in alien visits experience sleep paralysis
Who is Susan Clancy ?
Our ability to distinguish whether our memory is of a real event or an imagined event
What is Reality Monitoring ?
The false memory created by a list in which all of the words are related or associated with the absent but suggested word
What is Critical Intrusion ?
A match between a retrieved memory and an actual event from the past
What is Correspondence ?
The ability to recover previously forgotten memories
What is Recovery of Repressed Memories ?
Introduced a paradigm known as the “misinformation effect” into the memory literature
Who is Elizabeth Loftus ?
The current theory is that source monitoring occurs at the
What is time of retrieval ?
An explanation for the retrieval of critical intrusions in the DRM. All of the presented words are linked to or associated with the critical intrusion
What is Contextual Association ?
The tendency to incorporate information from sources other than the original witnessed event, such as other people, written materials, or pictures, which may be misleading
What is Suggestibility ?
Increases the number of false memories without increasing the number of accurate memories
What is Hypnosis ?
Producers of DRM procedure ?
Who are Deese, Roediger, and McDermott ?
A strongly imagined and plausible memory may pass this
What is source-monitoring test ?
... result in a greater likelihood of remembering the critical intrusion as a word on the list
What are longer lists ?
An alternate explanation of false memories in the DRM procedure focuses on the idea that memory representation is not exact
What is a Fuzzy Trace Theory ?
Researchers induce false memories by simply having the participant imagine an event
What is Imagination Inflation ?
Asked both children and adults to study DRM lists that were either mixed together, so that it was more difficult to detect the gist of mixed-up lists, or listed one after the other, such that it was much easier to detect the gist of each list
Who is Lampinen ?
Failures in source monitoring can lead to
What are false memories ?
The DRM is a good experimental paradigm for looking at false memories induced by
What is associative structures ?
Used to induce false memories for pictures. Unpresented pictures similar to presented pictures are more likely to be recognized as seen than dissimilar pictures
What is Visual False Memory Procedure ?
The active forgetting of highly emotional memories, usually from childhood
What is Repression ?