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2015 (English)In: Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory and Cognition, ISSN 0278-7393, E-ISSN 1939-1285, Vol. 41, no 6, p. 1728-1740Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Two experiments examined the extent to which erroneous recall blocks veridical recall using, as a vehicle for study, the disruptive impact of distractors that are semantically similar to a list of words presented for free recall. Instructing participants to avoid erroneous recall of to-be-ignored spoken distractors attenuated their recall but this did not influence the disruptive effect of those distractors on veridical recall (Experiment 1). Using an externalized output-editing procedure-whereby participants recalled all items that came to mind and identified those that were erroneous-the usual between-sequences semantic similarity effect on erroneous and veridical recall was replicated but the relationship between the rate of erroneous and veridical recall was weak (Experiment 2). The results suggest that forgetting is not due to veridical recall being blocked by similar events.
Keywords
blocking, erroneous recall, externalized free recall, forewarning, veridical recall
National Category
Psychology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-18897 (URN)10.1037/xlm0000121 (DOI)000364163700010 ()25938326 (PubMedID)2-s2.0-84928659600 (Scopus ID)
Funder
Swedish Research Council, 2010-02042
Note
Även finansierat av Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), UK, Projektnummer: RES-062-23-1752.
2015-01-312015-01-312023-09-18Bibliographically approved