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Maguire, Angela M.; Humphreys, Michael S.; Dennis, Simon; Lee, Michael D. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2010
This paper addresses two Global Matching predictions in embedded-category designs: the within-category choice advantage in forced-choice recognition (superior discrimination for test choices comprising a same-category distractor); and the category length effect in forced-choice and old/new recognition (a loss in discriminability with increases in…
Descriptors: Bayesian Statistics, Models, Prediction, Classification
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Howe, Mark L.; Wimmer, Marina C.; Gagnon, Nadine; Plumpton, Shannon – Journal of Memory and Language, 2009
The effects of associative strength and gist relations on rates of children's and adults' true and false memories were examined in three experiments. Children aged 5-11 and university-aged adults participated in a standard Deese/Roediger-McDermott false memory task using DRM and category lists in two experiments and in the third, children…
Descriptors: Cues, Semantics, College Students, Children
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Hicks, Jason L.; Starns, Jeffrey J. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2006
We tested the impact of associative strength and retrieval heuristics in false source memory. We arranged 12-item associative lists in descending order of backward associative strength to a critical non-presented item and then split them into 6-item sub-lists at the median. High- and low-strength sub-lists were correlated with presentation source.…
Descriptors: Memory, Recall (Psychology), Experiments, Heuristics