Creating false memories of words with or without recognition of list items: Evidence for nonconscious processes

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作者
Seamon, JG [1 ]
Luo, CR [1 ]
Gallo, DA [1 ]
机构
[1] Wesleyan Univ, Dept Psychol, Middletown, CT 06459 USA
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10.1111/1467-9280.00004
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B84 [心理学];
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04 ; 0402 ;
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Subjects exposed to lists of semantically related words falsely remember nonstudied words that are associated with the list items (e.g., Deese, 1959; Roediger & McDermott, 1995). To determine if subjects would demonstrate this false memory effect if they were unable to recognize the list items, we presented lists of semantically related words with or without a concurrent memory load at rates of 2 s, 250 ms, or 20 ms per word (Experiment I, between-subjects design) and 2 s or 20 ms per word (Experiment 2, within-subjects design). We found that rite subjects falsely recognized semantically related nonstudied words in all conditions, even when they were unable to discriminate studied words from unrelated nonstudied words. Recognition of list items was unnecessary for the occurrence of the false memory effect. This finding suggests that this memory illusion call be based on the nonconscious activation of semantic concepts during list presentation.
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