title: Inconsistency effects in source memory and compensatory schema-consistent guessing.
abstract: The attention-elaboration hypothesis of memory for schematically unexpected information predicts better source memory for unexpected than expected sources. In three source-monitoring experiments, the authors tested the occurrence of an inconsistency effect in source memory. Participants were presented with items that were schematically either very expected or very unexpected for their source. Multinomial processing tree models were used to separate source memory, item memory, and guessing bias. Results show an inconsistency effect in source memory accompanied by a compensatory schema-consistent guessing bias when expectancy strength is high, that is, when items are very expected or very unexpected for their source.
authors.affiliation: a Institute for Experimental Psychology , Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf , Düsseldorf , Germany.
authors.forename: Viviane
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Küppers
authors.forename: Ute J
authors.initials: UJ
authors.lastname: Bayen
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology*; D015982:Bias; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007600:Judgment / Q000502:physiology*; D007858:Learning; D008297:Male; D008568:Memory / Q000502:physiology*; D008960:Models, Psychological; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D011336:Probability; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Inconsistency effect; Multinomial modelling; Response bias; Schemas; Source monitoring