Honors Theses
Date of Award
Fall 12-9-2022
Document Type
Undergraduate Thesis
Department
Psychology
First Advisor
Matthew Reysen
Relational Format
Dissertation/Thesis
Abstract
The purpose of the present study was to analyze the extent to which various processing scenarios influenced participants' rates of true and false memory recollection. Participants were placed in one of three conditions, storytelling, survival, or pleasantness, and then studied a list of common nouns. They were then instructed to comment on the words in a specific manner depending on the condition to which they were randomly assigned. Following this, participants completed a math distractor task, and were then asked to complete a free recall test for the previously studied words. The results indicated that participants in the storytelling condition correctly recalled more studied words than participants in either the survival or pleasantness conditions. Further, it was found that participants across all three conditions had not statistically significantly different rates of false memory.
Recommended Citation
Daniels, Rachel, "The Effects of Survival, Pleasantness, and Storytelling Conditions on True and False Memory Recollection" (2022). Honors Theses. 2810.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/hon_thesis/2810
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