Can intentional forgetting reduce false memory? Effects of list-level and item-level forgetting

Acta Psychologica

Volumn 127, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 146-153

  Lee, Yuh shiow ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Cued recall; Directed forgetting; DRM paradigm; Part list cuing; Semantic activation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BEHAVIOR; DEFENSE MECHANISM; HUMAN; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); LEARNING; PAIRED ASSOCIATE LEARNING; RECALL; SEMANTICS; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

CUES; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); INTENTION; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING; REPRESSION; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 36849033385     PISSN: 00016918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2007.03.004     Document Type: Article

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