title: The corrective effects of warning on false memories in the DRM paradigm are limited to full attention conditions.
abstract: Effects of attention control and forewarning on the activation and monitoring of experimentally induced false memories in the Deese/Roediger-McDermott paradigm were investigated in a young adult sample (N=77). We found that reducing the degree of attention during encoding led to a decrease in veridical recall and an increase in non-presented critical lure intrusions. This effect could not be counteracted by a forewarning instruction. However, these findings did not emerge in a (retrieval supportive) recognition task. It seems that divided attention increases false recall when attention control and forewarning have to compete for limited cognitive resources in a generative free recall as opposed to a retrieval supportive recognition task. Forewarning instructions do not always protect young adults against experimentally induced false memories.
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Psychological Science, Faculty of Psychology, Maastricht University, P.O. Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, Netherlands. m.peters@psychology.unimaas.nl
authors.forename: Maarten J V
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Peters
authors.forename: Marko
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Jelicic
authors.forename: Benny
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Gorski
authors.forename: Kevin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sijstermans
authors.forename: Timo
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Giesbrecht
authors.forename: Harald
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Merckelbach
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001288:Attention; D003463:Cues; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011939:Mental Recall; D010898:Pitch Perception; D011932:Reading; D012094:Repression, Psychology; D012660:Semantics; D013404:Suggestion; D055815:Young Adult