The influence of encoding style on the production of false memories in the DRM paradigm: New insights on individual differences in false memory susceptibility?
Dehon, Hedwige; Laroi, Frank; Van der Linden, Martial
2011 • In Personality and Individual Differences, 50 (5), p. 583-587
[en] Recent research has shown that there are individual differences in how preexisting (internal)
schemata (versus cues from the outside world) affect encoding processes, which can be
reliably assessed with the internal and external Encoding Style Questionnaire (ESQ, Lewicki,
2005). Since reliance on preexisting schemata at encoding has been found to increase the
production of false memories in the DRM paradigm (Roediger & McDermott, 1995), while
item-specific encoding has been shown to reduce it (see Gallo, 2006), it was examined
whether individual differences in encoding style affects the production of such false
memories. To this purpose, normal participants were asked to complete a French version of
the ESQ questionnaire (Billieux et al., 2009) and were presented with a modified DRM
procedure (Brédart, 2000) assessing false recall. The results showed a positive correlation
between ESQ scores and false recall showing that internal encoders were more susceptible to
false memories than external encoders.
Research Center/Unit :
Centre de Neurosciences Cognitives et Comportementales - ULiège
Disciplines :
Theoretical & cognitive psychology
Author, co-author :
Dehon, Hedwige ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences cognitives > Psychologie cognitive
Laroi, Frank ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences cognitives > Psychologie clinique cognitive et comportementale
Van der Linden, Martial ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences cognitives > Psychopathologie cognitive
Language :
English
Title :
The influence of encoding style on the production of false memories in the DRM paradigm: New insights on individual differences in false memory susceptibility?
Alternative titles :
[fr] influence du style d'encodage sur la production de faux souvenirs
Publication date :
2011
Journal title :
Personality and Individual Differences
ISSN :
0191-8869
eISSN :
1873-3549
Publisher :
Pergamon Press - An Imprint of Elsevier Science, Oxford, United Kingdom
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