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Article: Test of competing explanations of the bizarre response bias in recognition memory.(Statistical Data Included)
- Article from:
- The Journal of General Psychology
- Article date:
- January 1, 2002
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INFLUENTIAL DEMONSTRATIONS of false recall and false recognition (e.g., Roediger & McDermott, 1995) have been criticized for reliance on common stimulus materials that tend to follow a single theme or produce a single consistent schema. According to Freyd and Gleaves (1996), research investigating memory accuracy for unusual, surprising, or emotionally charged information would be far more generalizable to real-world clinical and legal issues than would research that examines memory only for common stimuli. In response to such arguments, researchers in the area of memory for bizarre events have begun examining the relative susceptibility of bizarre and common information ...