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- A study examined how different age groups (first graders, younger adults, older adults) performed in a word recall task where they generated related words beforehand.
- The findings showed that both children and older adults experienced more false memories compared to younger adults.
- It suggests that difficulties in remembering the source of information contribute to these false memories, highlighting differences in memory processes across the lifespan.
Article Abstract
In a variation of Deese's (1959, Journal of Experimental Psychology, 58, 17-22) list-learning paradigm, 32 first-graders, 32 younger adults, and 24 older adults self-generated words that were semantically related to study items prior to recall. This manipulation increased false recollection for children and older adults, but not for younger adults. These data suggest that source-monitoring deficits underlie children's and older adults' illusory memories within the list-learning format. The differential roles played by source monitoring versus declarative memory in the production of false memories are discussed from a life span developmental perspective.
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