[PDF] Top 20 On the adaptive function of children's and adults' false memories

... to false memory generation, for both children (Dewhurst, Howe, Berry, & Knott, 2012) and adults (Dewhurst et ...of false memories themselves, the primary locus of false ... See full document

... and adults’ false memories. For children, divided attention likely affected the understanding of the true items such that detailed understanding of those items was ...lowering false ... See full document

... FTT, false memories are caused by a reliance on gist traces when retrieval of verbatim traces is not ...of false memories to an automatic activation of neighboring information in one ’ ... See full document

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... children’s false memories are produced less automatically than adults’ (Howe, ...and adults’ true memories decrease. In contrast, for false memories, only children’s but ... See full document

... true memories can be used to prime problem solving and reasoning tasks successfully ...that false memories might also prime problem ...for adults, false memories can and do prime ... See full document

... the adaptive memory effect was developmentally invariant when survival information was used and memory was tested in an intentional memory ...of adaptive memory effects by showing that for survival ... See full document

... that false memories far from being damaging to the individual can often be of con- siderable benefit, particularly in maintaining a coherent, confident, and positive ...time-compressed memories with ... See full document

... laden. Children were interviewed individually and listened to a recording of one or two of eight possible DRM ...with adults (Stadler, Roediger, & McDermott, 1999) and with children ranging from ... See full document

... presented adults with DRM lists whose critical lures served as potential primes for half of the subsequent CRAT problems that participants had to ...to children and found exactly the same ...true ... See full document

... That the human memory system is a fallible system is without question (e.g., see Howe, 2011a; Schacter, Guerin, & St. Jacques, 2011). Although a number of paradigms have established that memory is a powerful yet ... See full document

... by false memories than adults’ (Brainerd & Reyna, 2012; Ceci & Bruck, ...spontaneous false memories suggests is that this assumption is untenable when it comes to spontaneous ... See full document

... of false memory development is the associative- activation theory (Howe, 2005; Howe, Wimmer, & Blease, 2009a; Howe, Wimmer, Gagnon, & Plumpton, ...for false memories in children and ... See full document

... of false memories. They propose that false memories are a consequence of an otherwise powerful and functional system, one that is designed to help relive the past and imagine the ...the ... See full document

... that false memories can exhibit effects similar to that of true ...that false memories have beneficial effects in human cognition and emotion and not simply the negative consequences we are ... See full document

... how children would react when exposed to suggestive interviewing ...many children allegedly abused by the same ...of children over a 10-year ...the children showed that they were questioned in ... See full document

... For false recall, although there were more items falsely recalled in English than French in within-language conditions (like all other participants in this study), there were no differences in rates of ... See full document

... Many children involved in legal cases have a history of ...between false memories that arise spontaneously (Howe & Knott, 2015; Otgaar & Candel, 2011), that is, without any external ... See full document

... believed memories and nonbelieved ...for false memories, undermining belief led to a reduction in subsequent problem-solving behavior, a finding that accords well with the above ... See full document

... frequency of the neutral and emotional critical lures did not differ, t(8) = 0.22, p > .05, by using the CELEX lexical database (Baayen, Piepenbrock, & Gulikers, 1995). Also, the mean backward associative strength ... See full document