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Brainerd, C. J.; Bialer, D. M.; Chang, M.; Upadhyay, P. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2022
In recognition memory, anything that is objectively new is necessarily not-old, and anything that is objectively old is necessarily not-new. Therefore, judging whether a test item is new is logically equivalent to judging whether it is old, and conversely. Nevertheless, a series of 10 experiments showed that old? and new? judgments did not produce…
Descriptors: Memory, Recognition (Psychology), Novelty (Stimulus Dimension), Evaluative Thinking
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Brainerd, C. J.; Holliday, R. E.; Reyna, V. F.; Yang, Y.; Toglia, M. P. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2010
Do the emotional valence and arousal of events distort children's memories? Do valence and arousal modulate counterintuitive age increases in false memory? We investigated those questions in children, adolescents, and adults using the Cornell/Cortland Emotion Lists, a word list pool that induces false memories and in which valence and arousal can…
Descriptors: Semantics, Word Lists, Memory, Experimental Psychology