title: What factors underlie children's susceptibility to semantic and phonological false memories? investigating the roles of language skills and auditory short-term memory.
abstract: Two experiments investigated the cognitive skills that underlie children's susceptibility to semantic and phonological false memories in the Deese/Roediger-McDermott procedure (Deese, 1959; Roediger & McDermott, 1995). In Experiment 1, performance on the Verbal Similarities subtest of the British Ability Scales (BAS) II (Elliott, Smith, & McCulloch, 1997) predicted correct and false recall of semantic lures. In Experiment 2, performance on the Yopp-Singer Test of Phonemic Segmentation (Yopp, 1988) did not predict correct recall, but inversely predicted the false recall of phonological lures. Auditory short-term memory was a negative predictor of false recall in Experiment 1, but not in Experiment 2. The findings are discussed in terms of the formation of gist and verbatim traces as proposed by fuzzy trace theory (Reyna & Brainerd, 1998) and the increasing automaticity of associations as proposed by associative activation theory (Howe, Wimmer, Gagnon, & Plumpton, 2009).
authors.affiliation: School of Education, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 8AQ, UK. Electronic address: S.McGeown@ed.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Sarah P
authors.initials: SP
authors.lastname: McGeown
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Hull, Hull HU6 7RX, UK.
authors.forename: Eleanor A
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Gray
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Hull, Hull HU6 7RX, UK.
authors.forename: Jamey L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Robinson
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Hull, Hull HU6 7RX, UK. Electronic address: s.dewhurst@hull.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Stephen A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Dewhurst
mesh_terms: D001307:Auditory Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D008568:Memory / Q000502:physiology*; D008570:Memory, Short-Term / Q000502:physiology*; D012660:Semantics
keywords: Associative activation theory; False memory development; Fuzzy trace theory; Phonological DRM; Semantic DRM