Seamon John G, Philbin Morgan M, Harrison Liza G
Psychology Department, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT 06459, USA.
Psychon Bull Rev. 2006 Oct;13(5):752-6. doi: 10.3758/bf03193992.
During a campus walk, participants were given familiar or bizarre action statements (e.g., "Check the Pepsi machine for change" vs. "Propose marriage to the Pepsi machine") with instructions either to perform the actions or imagine performing the actions (Group 1) or to watch the experimenter perform the actions or imagine the experimenter performing the actions (Group 2). One day later, some actions were repeated, along with new actions, on a second walk. Two weeks later, the participants took a recognition test for actions presented during the first walk, and they specified whether a recognized action was imagined or performed. Imagining themselves or the experimenter performing familiar or bizarre actions just once led to false recollections of performance for both types of actions. This study extends previous research on imagination inflation by demonstrating that these false performance recollections can occur in a natural, real-life setting following just one imagining.
在一次校园散步过程中，参与者会收到熟悉或怪异的动作描述（例如，“检查百事可乐自动售货机找零”与“向百事可乐自动售货机求婚”），并被指示要么执行这些动作，要么想象执行这些动作（第一组），要么观看实验者执行这些动作，要么想象实验者执行这些动作（第二组）。一天后，在第二次散步时，一些动作会被重复，同时还会有新的动作。两周后，参与者对第一次散步时出现的动作进行识别测试，并指明一个被识别的动作是想象的还是实际执行的。仅仅一次想象自己或实验者执行熟悉或怪异的动作，就会导致对这两种动作的执行产生错误记忆。这项研究通过证明这些错误的执行记忆可以在仅仅一次想象之后的自然、现实生活环境中发生，扩展了先前关于想象膨胀的研究。
