AreYoung children susceptible to the false-memory illusion? Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • False memories have typically been found to be more common during early childhood than during later childhood or adulthood. However, fuzzy-trace theory makes the counterintuitive prediction that some powerful forms of adult false memory will be greatly attenuated in early childhood, an important example being the Deese/Roediger/McDermott (DRM) illusion. Three developmental studies of this illusion (N = 282) found that (1) it was at near-floor levels in young children, (2) it was still below adult levels by early adolescence, and (3) the low levels of the illusion in young children may be due to failure to "get the gist" of DRM materials.

publication date

  • January 1, 2002

Research

keywords

  • Illusions
  • Memory
  • Repression, Psychology

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 0036728878

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1111/1467-8624.00477

PubMed ID

  • 12361306

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 73

issue

  • 5