False recognition of instruction-set lures. Issue 1 (2nd January 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Curtis, Evan T.; Chubala, Chrissy M.; Spear, Jackie; Jamieson, Randall K.; Hockley, William E.; Crump, Matthew J. C.
• Is Part Of: Memory. Volume 24:Issue 1(2016)
• Page Start: 32
• Page End: 43
• Publication Date: 2016-01-02
• Subjects: Recognition -- False memory -- Source monitoring; Memory -- Periodicals; 153.1205
• DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2014.982657
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0965-8211

Abstract

Abstract : False remembering has been examined using a variety of procedures, including the Deese-Roediger-McDermott procedure, the false fame procedure and the two-list recognition procedure. We present six experiments in a different empirical framework examining false recognition of words included in the experimental instructions (instruction-set lures). The data show that participants' false alarm rate to instruction-set lures was twice their false alarm rate to standard lures. That result was statistically robust even when (1) the relative strength of targets to instruction-set lures was increased, (2) participants were warned about the instruction-set lures, (3) the instruction-set lures were camouflaged in the study instructions and (4) the instruction-set lures were presented verbally at study but visually at test. False recognition of instruction-set lures was only mitigated when participants were distracted between encountering the instruction-set lures and studying the training list. The results confirm the ease with which recognition succumbs to familiarity and demonstrate the robustness of false recognition.