Definitions
Memories that do not correspond to events as they actually happened.
What is false memory?
False memories of events are induced in participants by repeatedly asking them about events they never experienced.
What is false memory induction procedure?
The active forgetting of highly emotional memories, usually from childhood.
What is repression?
A match between a retrieved memory and an actual event from the past.
What is correspondence?
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?
A theory that explains repression. Because memories of childhood trauma are highly negative, often private, and potentially embarrassing, they are not likely to be rehearsed often.
What is failure to rehearse?
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?
Used to induce false memories for items on word lists. Associates to an unpresented word are given, and the unpresented word is often recalled.
What is Deese-Roediger-McDermott (DRM) procedure?
A theory that explains repression. People may deliberately force themselves to not remember the event.
What is active suppression?
Our ability to distinguish among the sources of our retrieved memories, in both the external and internal world.
What is source monitoring?
An explanation for the retrieval of critical intrusions in the DRM. When items are encoded, they are not encoded literally but rather in terms of their meaning.
What is fuzzy-trace theory?
The result of employing a procedure that makes some information easier to recall than other information.
What is retrieval bias?
Our ability to distinguish whether our memory is of a real event or an imagined event.
What is reality monitoring?
Contextual associations and fuzzy-trace theory.
What is the explanations of the false memories produced by the DRM procedure?
The memory becomes inaccessible.
What happens when you fail to rehearse a memory?