Retrieval Can Increase or Decrease Suggestibility Depending on How Memory Is Tested: The Importance of Source Complexity

Autor/inn/en	Chan, Jason C. K.; Wilford, Miko M.; Hughes, Katharine L.
Titel	Retrieval Can Increase or Decrease Suggestibility Depending on How Memory Is Tested: The Importance of Source Complexity
Quelle	In: Journal of Memory and Language, 67 (2012) 1, S.78-85 (8 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0749-596X
DOI	10.1016/j.jml.2012.02.006
Schlagwörter	Testing; Memory; Learning; Experiments; Recall (Psychology); Tests + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Testdurchführung; Testen; Gedächtnis; Lernen; Erprobung; Abberufung; Examination; Prüfung; Examen
Abstract	Taking an intervening test between learning episodes can enhance later source recollection. Paradoxically, testing can also increase people's susceptibility to the misinformation effect--a finding termed retrieval-enhanced suggestibility (RES, Chan, Thomas, & Bulevich, 2009). We conducted three experiments to examine this apparent contradiction. Experiment 1 extended the RES effect to a new set of materials. Experiments 2 and 3 showed that testing can produce opposite effects on memory suggestibility depending on the complexity of the source test. Specifically, retrieval facilitated source discriminations when the test contained only items with unique source origins. But when the source test included some items that had appeared in multiple sources, the intervening test actually increased source confusions. These results have implications for a wide variety of learning situations. We focused our discussion on eyewitness memory, source complexity, and reconsolidation. (Contains 4 tables.) (As Provided).
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