Methodological advances in false memory research: development and norming of DRM procedure / Avanços metodológicos no estudo das falsas memórias: construção e normatização do procedimento de palavras associadas

• Main Authors: Lilian Milnitsky Stein, Leandro da Fonte Feix, Gustavo Rohenkohl
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: SpringerOpen 2006-01-01
• Series: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica
• Subjects: Memory; false memory; DRM; recall; recognition
• Online Access: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-79722006000200002&lng=pt&nrm=iso&tlng=pt

The Roediger e McDermott, (1995) Word List Paradigm has been widely used as a powerful experimental technique to investigate false memories. Two studies were designed with the purpose of developing and creating norms for lists of semantically related words for Brazilian Portuguese. Study 1 (n=426) describes the process of generating 44 word lists, including eight emotional lists. Study II (n=471) provides the first normative data on false memories production using the lists developed in the first study. Normative data includes two memory-testing conditions: free recall and recognition. Results indicate the effectiveness of the word lists paradigm for studying false memories.