Autobiographical Elaboration Reduces Memory Distortion: Cognitive Operations and the Distinctiveness Heuristic

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1430-1445

  McDonough, Ian M ^a   Gallo, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

autobiographical elaboration; criterial recollection; distinctiveness heuristic; false recognition; retrieval monitoring

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; DECISION MAKING; DEFENSE MECHANISM; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; LIFE EVENT; MALE; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION; SEMANTICS;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; CUES; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REPRESSION; SEMANTICS; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 56449098198     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0013013     Document Type: Article

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