title: False recognition of instruction-set lures.
abstract: False remembering has been examined using a variety of procedures, including the Deese-Roediger-McDermott procedure, the false fame procedure and the two-list recognition procedure. We present six experiments in a different empirical framework examining false recognition of words included in the experimental instructions (instruction-set lures). The data show that participants' false alarm rate to instruction-set lures was twice their false alarm rate to standard lures. That result was statistically robust even when (1) the relative strength of targets to instruction-set lures was increased, (2) participants were warned about the instruction-set lures, (3) the instruction-set lures were camouflaged in the study instructions and (4) the instruction-set lures were presented verbally at study but visually at test. False recognition of instruction-set lures was only mitigated when participants were distracted between encountering the instruction-set lures and studying the training list. The results confirm the ease with which recognition succumbs to familiarity and demonstrate the robustness of false recognition.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Psychology , University of Manitoba , Winnipeg , MB , Canada.
authors.forename: Evan T
authors.initials: ET
authors.lastname: Curtis
authors.affiliation: a Department of Psychology , University of Manitoba , Winnipeg , MB , Canada.
authors.forename: Chrissy M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Chubala
authors.affiliation: a Department of Psychology , University of Manitoba , Winnipeg , MB , Canada.
authors.forename: Jackie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Spear
authors.affiliation: a Department of Psychology , University of Manitoba , Winnipeg , MB , Canada.
authors.forename: Randall K
authors.initials: RK
authors.lastname: Jamieson
authors.affiliation: b Department of Psychology , Wilfrid Laurier University , Waterloo , ON , Canada.
authors.forename: William E
authors.initials: WE
authors.lastname: Hockley
authors.affiliation: c Department of Psychology , Brooklyn College , City University of New York , New York City , NY , USA.
authors.forename: Matthew J C
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Crump
mesh_terms: D003463:Cues; D006801:Humans; D021641:Recognition, Psychology; D012094:Repression, Psychology
keywords: False memory; Recognition; Source monitoring