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Title: Simulation, False Memories, and the Planning of Future Events
Language: English
Authors: Dewhurst, Stephen A., Anderson, Rachel J., Grace, Lydia, Howe, David
Source: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. Jan 2019 45(1):26-36.
Availability: American Psychological Association. Journals Department, 750 First Street NE, Washington, DC 20002. Tel: 800-374-2721; Tel: 202-336-5510; Fax: 202-336-5502; e-mail: order@apa.org; Web site: http://www.apa.org
Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 11
Publication Date: 2019
Document Type: Journal Articles
Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education
Postsecondary Education
Descriptors: Experimental Psychology, Memory, Planning, Visualization, Nouns, Schemata (Cognition), Recognition (Psychology), Undergraduate Students, Foreign Countries
Geographic Terms: United Kingdom (England)
DOI: 10.1037/xlm0000575
ISSN: 0278-7393
Abstract: Three experiments investigated the relationship between future thinking and false memories. In Experiment 1, participants remembered familiar events (e.g., a holiday) from their past, imagined planning the same events in the future, or took part in a control condition in which they visualized typical events. They then rated a series of schema-related and schema-unrelated nouns for how likely they were to be encountered within those events. In a surprise recognition test, participants in the future condition falsely recognized more schema-related items than participants in the past and control conditions. No reliable effects of rating condition were observed in correct recognition. Experiment 2 found the same pattern when participants imagined unfamiliar events (e.g., taking part in a bank robbery) from past or future perspectives. Participants in Experiment 3 remembered a past or imagined a future holiday and were then instructed to generate items that someone might take on a holiday. Participants in the future condition generated more nonstudied items and fewer studied items relative to participants in the past condition. The findings of Experiments 1 and 2 indicate that simulating future events enhances the activation of related items that gives rise to false memories. The findings of Experiment 3 suggest that these activation processes play an adaptive role in guiding the planning of future events.
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Entry Date: 2018
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