The DRM Paradigm

Question 1

What is false memory?

Answer 1

either remembering events that never happened or remembering them quite differently from the way they actually happened

Question 2

Roediger and McDermott (1995) Experiment 1:

Answer 2

They examined false memory for related prototype words.
- 6 lists of 12 words were presented auditorially followed by a free recall of each list.
- they then saw a list of words and participants rated confidence that each word was in the list (1-4)
- lists were composed of 12 related words linked by an omitted prototype word.

Question 3

Roediger and McDermott (1995) Experiment 2:

Answer 3

Explored meta-cognition with the ‘remember/know’ paradigm.
Studied 16 lists each containing 15 words (each list linked to a prototype)

Question 4

What are associative networks?

Answer 4

seeing a particular word e.g. ‘plant’ activate related words e.g. ‘tree’