title: Maltreated and non-maltreated children's true and false memories of neutral and emotional word lists in the Deese/Roediger-McDermott task.
abstract: Maltreated (n=26) and non-maltreated (n=31) 7- to 12-year-old children were tested on the Deese/Roediger-McDermott (DRM) false memory task using emotional and neutral word lists. True recall was significantly better for non-maltreated than maltreated children regardless of list valence. The proportion of false recall for neutral lists was comparable regardless of maltreatment status. However, maltreated children showed a significantly higher false recall rate for the emotional lists than non-maltreated children. Together, these results provide new evidence that maltreated children could be more prone to false memory illusions for negatively valenced information than their non-maltreated counterparts.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, 0317 Oslo, Norway. Electronic address: gunn-astrid.baugerud@hioa.no.
authors.forename: Gunn Astrid
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Baugerud
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, City University London, London EC1V 0HB, UK.
authors.forename: Mark L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Howe
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, 0317 Oslo, Norway.
authors.forename: Svein
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Magnussen
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, 0317 Oslo, Norway.
authors.forename: Annika
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Melinder
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002649:Child Abuse / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D004644:Emotions / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008568:Memory / Q000502:physiology*; D011939:Mental Recall / Q000502:physiology; D012094:Repression, Psychology
keywords: Maltreated children; Memory; Non-maltreated children; True and false memories; Valence