Development of false memory in children

Subject Areas : روان درمانگری

fatemeh Amadi ¹ , Shole Amiri ² , Yasamin Abedini ³

1 - MA in Psychology Isfahan University
2 - PhD Isfahan University
3 - PhD Isfahan University

Received: 2015-06-03 Accepted : 2015-06-03 Published : 2011-06-22

Keywords: Children, development, false memory,

Abstract :

The aim of this research was to investigate the developmental trend of false memories among primary school students between the ages of 7 and 12. One hundred and seventeen students in the first-, third-, and fifth- grade were selected by multistage cluster sampling. Participants were assessed using the basic and age-appropriate lists of the DRM paradigm (Roediger, & McDermott, 1995). The data were analyzed using multivariate of variance analysis (MANOVA). The results indicated that true recall, true recognition and false recognition of the basic lists, and true recall, false recall, and false recognition of the age-appropriate lists increased as the age increased. Also, the results indicated that the age-appropriate lists of DRM are more suitable than the basic lists for developmental study of false memory.