Lancaster University, Psychology Department, Lancaster, UK.
Cognition. 2011 Dec;121(3):416-21. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2011.06.015. Epub 2011 Aug 20.
An experimental mock eyewitness study is reported that compared Free and reverse order recall of an empirically informed scripted crime event. Proponents of reverse order recall suggest it facilitates recovery of script incidental information and increases the total amount of information recalled. However, compared with free recall it was found to impair overall retrieval performance, resulting in fewer script consistent events, reduced recall of correct information, increased confabulations, and lowered accuracy proportional to items retrieved. The disruptive effects of reverse order are interpreted as providing evidence for the role of temporal clustering in guiding retrieval. Impairment induced by reverse order continued to influence retrieval negatively even during a secondary free recall phase suggesting it encourages confabulations. The results indicate that the technique should be used with caution, and only when retrieval by free recall has been exhausted.
一项实验性的模拟目击证人研究报告比较了自由回忆和反向顺序回忆一个经验丰富的脚本犯罪事件。反向顺序回忆的支持者认为，它有助于恢复脚本附带信息，并增加回忆的总信息量。然而，与自由回忆相比，它被发现会损害整体检索性能，导致较少的脚本一致事件，正确信息的回忆减少，编造增加，准确性随着检索到的项目成比例降低。反向顺序的干扰效应被解释为提供了时间聚类在指导检索中的作用的证据。即使在第二次自由回忆阶段，反向顺序引起的损伤仍然继续对检索产生负面影响，这表明它鼓励了编造。结果表明，该技术应谨慎使用，只有在自由回忆检索已经用尽时才使用。
