Young children produce categorical false recall without activation of the lure items

Bibliographic Data

ID19277122
AuthorsTomohiro Nabeta (University of East Asia, corresponding author), Sumino Wakabayashi (Hiroshima Bunka Gakuen University), Shin‐Young Park (0000-0002-3776-4130, Sugiyama Jogakuen University), Akiko Kamigaki (Kawasaki College of Allied Health Professions), Akira Yamazaki (0000-0002-1103-2900, Meijigakuin University)
Year2015
Volume57
Issue2
Pages103-112
Publication date2015-04-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJapanese Psychological Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0021-5368 • E-ISSN: 1468-5884
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/jpr.12069
OpenAlexW2144031352
LanguageEN
References cited28

Individuals who study a list of words that are all related to another word that is not presented (a lure word) sometimes produce a false memory of having studied the lure word. The false memories are observed in lists of words that are in the same category as (category list) or associated with (associative list) a word that was not presented in an attempt to elicit false recall. The present study investigated whether young children create these types of false recall. Following the study of a categorical list, false recall was elicited in young children to the same degree as in adults, but studying an associative list elicited false recall only in adults. Furthermore, categorically related lure words did not have a priming effect in young children. These results suggest that the categorical false recall is produced via a different mechanism from the associative false recall

Associative property · Categorical variable · Cognitive psychology · Developmental psychology · False Memory · Free recall · Linguistics · Priming (agriculture) · Recall · Recall test · Statistics · Word (group theory) · Child and Animal Learning Development · Mathematics · Memory and Neural Mechanisms · Memory Processes and Influences · Psychology

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