Recollection rejection : Gist cuing of verbatim memory

• Published in: Memory & cognition Vol. 33; no. 8; pp. 1422 - 1430
• Main Authors: ODEGARD, Timothy N, LAMPINEN, James M
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Austin, TX Psychonomic Society 01.12.2005; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Adult; Attention; Biological and medical sciences; Concept Formation; Cues; Experiments; Female; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Human; Humans; Learning. Memory; Male; Memory; Memory, Short-Term; Mental Recall; Paired-Associate Learning; Psycholinguistics; Psychology; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychology. Psychophysiology; Recall; Recognition; Semantics; Human; Memory retrieval; Recognition memory; Cognition; Experimental study; Memory
• ISSN: 0090-502X; 1532-5946
• DOI: 10.3758/bf03193375

Recollection rejection allows people to avoid accepting related lures presented on recognition tests by recollecting their instantiating study items. Two predictions made by fuzzy trace theoristswere tested. First, recollection rejection should likely occur when verbatim traces are available for retrieval. Second, related lures that closely approximate the gist of their instantiating study items should be more likely to evoke recollection rejection than related lures that do not provide such a match. In support of the first condition, estimates of recollection rejection were lower when participants studied items under divided as opposed to full attention. In support of the second prediction, estimates of recollection rejection were greater when participants were presented with antonyms as related lures, as opposed to rhymes. The present results contribute to the cued recall and recognition literatures by demonstrating that recollection rejection is moderated by similar factors as is cued recall.