Journal article
Future Planning May Promote Prospective False Memories
JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH IN MEMORY AND COGNITION, v 9(2)
Jun 2020
Abstract
Prospective memory (PM) involves remembering to execute future intentions. Pairs played a word game (Taboo) with an embedded PM task. In Taboo, one player (clue giver) must get their partner (clue guesser) to say aloud a target word (e.g., ROOF) by offering clues such as home without saying certain taboo words (e.g., fiddler, house). The PM task required clue givers to remember to say specific clue words if any predesignated PM targets appeared during the game (e.g., If ROOF is a target, use 'home' as a clue). Before playing Taboo, participants learned that half the PM targets did not have to be executed (cancelled intention) and half did (active intention). One day after playing, participants rated how clearly they remembered executing PM task and targets that had never appeared in the Taboo game. Memory ratings were higher for words from active intentions relative to cancelled intentions, evidencing false prospective memory.
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- Title
- Future Planning May Promote Prospective False Memories
- Publication Details
- JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH IN MEMORY AND COGNITION, v 9(2)
- Publisher
- AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC; WASHINGTON
- Number of pages
- 0
- Grant note
- We thank the Canada Research Chairs Program granted to Daniel Bernstein (#950-232078) for funding this work.
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Drexel University
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000542931100013
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85084062265
- Other Identifier
- 991021860766904721
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- Web of Science research areas
- Psychology, Experimental