AN INVESTIGATION OF FALSE MEMORIES IN ANXIOUS AND FEARFUL INDIVIDUALS

Autor:	F. Richard Ferraro, Candice M. Jostad, Jennifer R. Brendle, Amy Wenzel, Chad M. Lystad
Rok vydání:	2004
Předmět:	Clinical Psychology Recall Social anxiety General Medicine False memory Psychology Task (project management) Memory bias Cognitive psychology Developmental psychology
Zdroj:	Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy. 32:257-274
ISSN:	1469-1833 1352-4658
DOI:	10.1017/s1352465804001407
Popis:	The present study applied the Deese-Roediger-McDermott false memory paradigm to examine whether anxious and fearful individuals exhibit higher recall and recognition rates of never presented threat words than nonanxious individuals. In Study 1, 39 spider fearful individuals, 28 blood fearful individuals, and 41 nonfearful individuals learned four word lists associated with unpresented target words: “spider”, “blood”, “river”, and “music”. Regardless of whether participants completed only a recognition task or a recall task and then a recognition task, there were no differences as a function of group in the degree to which they falsely remembered unpresented target threat words. In Study 2, 48 socially anxious and 51 nonanxious individuals learned four lists associated with social/evaluative threat unpresented target words and four lists associated with neutral unpresented target words. Similar to the findings from Study 1, groups did not differ in the degree to which they falsely remembered target words. These findings add to an increasingly large literature suggesting that anxious individuals are not characterized by a memory bias toward threat.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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