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Preferred term

impoverished relational-encoding  

Definition

  • The hypothesis proposed by Hege and Dodson (2004) to explain why the study of distinctive information reduces false memories. According to this hypothesis, the distinctive details interfere with the encoding of relational or associative information, the latter being the main source of false memories.

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Bibliographic citation(s)

  • • Hege, A. C. G., & Dodson, C. S. (2004). Why distinctive information reduces false memories: Evidence for both impoverished relational-encoding and distinctiveness heuristic accounts. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 30(4), 787–795. https://doi.org/10.1037/0278-7393.30.4.787

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]

Creator

  • Frank Arnould

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/P66-NJCNGK1S-V

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