Development of the false-memory illusion. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • The counterintuitive developmental trend in the Deese-Roediger-McDermott (DRM) illusion (that false-memory responses increase with age) was investigated in learning-disabled and nondisabled children from the 6- to 14-year-old age range. Fuzzy-trace theory predicts that because there are qualitative differences in how younger versus older children and disabled versus nondisabled children connect meaning information across the words on DRM lists, certain key effects that are observed in adult studies will be absent in young children and in learning-disabled children. Data on 6 such adult effects (list strength, recall inflation, delayed inflation, delayed stability, thematic intrusion, and true-false dissociation) were used to investigate this hypothesis, and the resulting data were consistent with prediction.

publication date

  • September 1, 2006

Research

keywords

  • Association Learning
  • Illusions
  • Learning Disabilities
  • Mental Recall
  • Repression, Psychology
  • Verbal Learning

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 33748802511

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1037/0012-1649.42.5.962

PubMed ID

  • 16953700

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 42

issue

  • 5