When Distinctiveness Fails, False Memories Prevail

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 170-177

  Howe, Mark L ^a  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; HUMAN; MEMORY; NOTE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

CHILD; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; MEMORY;

EID: 0032196539     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jecp.1998.2469     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Bower, G. H., & Mann, T. (1992). Improving recall by recoding interfering material at the time of retrieval. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 18, 1310-1320.
2. Brainerd, C. J., & Reyna, V. F. (1998). Fuzzy-trace theory and children's false memories. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 71, 81-129.
3. Brainerd, C. J., Reyna, V. F., & Kneer, R. (1995). False-recognition reversal: When similarity if distinctive. Journal of Memory & Language, 34, 157-185.
4. Ceci, S. J., Huffman, M. L. C., Smith, E., & Loftus, E. F. (1994). Repeatedly thinking about a nonevent: Source misattributions among preschoolers. Consciousness and Cognition, 3, 388-407.
5. Howe, M. L. (1998). Reducing retroactive interference in children's long-term retention: I. The role of directed forgetting. Manuscript submitted for publication.
6. Howe, M. L. (in press). The fate of early memories: The developmental science of memories from the cradle. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
7. Howe, M. L. (in preparation-a). Reducing retroactive interference in children's long-term retention: II. The role of recoding.
8. Howe, M. L. (in preparation-b). The role of distinctiveness in children's long-term retention.
9. Howe, M. L., & Courage, M. L. (1997). Independent paths in the development of infant learning and forgetting. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 67, 131-163.
10. Howe, M. L., Courage, M. L., & Peterson, C. (1995). Intrusions in preschoolers' recall of traumatic childhood events. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2, 130-134.
11. Howe, M. L., & O'Sullivan, J. T. (1997). What children's memories tell us about recalling our childhoods: A review of storage and retrieval processes in the development of long-term retention. Developmental Review, 17, 148-204.
12. Howe, M. L., & Rabinowitz, F. M. (1996). Reasoning from memory: A lifespan inquiry into the necessity of remembering when reasoning about class inclusion. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 61, 1-42.
13. Howe, M. L., Rabinowitz, F. M., & Grant, M. J. (1993). On measuring (in)dependence of cognitive processes. Psychological Review, 100, 737-747.
14. Huffman, M. L., Crossman, A. M., & Ceci, S. J. (1997). "Are false memories permanent?": An investigation of the long-term effects of source misattributions. Consciousness and Cognition, 6, 482-490.
15. Hunt, R. R. (1995). The subtlety of distinctiveness: What von Restorff really did. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2, 105-112.
16. Hunt, R. R., & McDaniel, M. A. (1993). The enigma of organization and distinctiveness. Journal of Memory & Language, 32, 421-445.
17. Johnson, M. K., Nolde, S. F., Mather, M., Kounios, J., Schacter, D. L., & Curran, T. (1997). The similarity of brain activity associated with true and false recognition depends on test format. Psychological Science, 8, 250-257.
18. Kraemer, P. J., & Golding, J. M. (1997). Adaptive forgetting in animals. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 4, 480-491.
19. McClelland, J. L. (1995). Constructive memory and memory distortions: A parallel-distributed processing approach. In D. Schacter (Ed.), Memory distortion: How minds, brains, and societies reconstruct the past (pp. 69-90). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
20. Medin, D. L., Goldstone, R. L., & Gentner, D. (1993). Respects for similarity. Psychological Review, 100, 254-278.
21. Riefer, D. M., & Rouder, J. N. (1992). A multinomial modeling analysis of the mnemonic benefits of bizarre imagery. Memory & Cognition, 20, 601-611.
22. Schacter, D. L., Reiman, E., Curran, T., Yun, L. S., Bandy, D., McDermott, K. B., & Roediger, H. L., III. (1996). Neuroanatomical correlates of veridical and illusory recognition memory: Evidence from positron emission tomography. Neuron, 17, 267-274.
23. Schmidt, S. R. (1991). Can we have a distinctive theory of memory? Memory & Cognition, 19, 523-542.
24. Schmidt, S. R. (1996). Category typicality effects in episodic memory: Testing models of distinctiveness. Memory & Cognition, 24, 595-607.
25. Waddill, P. J., & McDaniel, M. A. (1998). Distinctiveness effects in recall: Differential processing or privileged retrieval? Memory & Cognition, 26, 108-120.