由于宽松反应偏差，年轻人比中年成年人更容易产生错误记忆。
Youth are more Vulnerable to False Memories than Middle-Aged Adults due to Liberal Response Bias.
作者信息
Meusel Liesel-Ann C, Macqueen Glenda M, Jaswal Gurpreet, McKinnon Margaret C
机构信息
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario ; Mood Disorders Program, St. Joseph's Healthcare, Hamilton, Ontario.
出版信息
J Can Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2012 Nov;21(4):289-95.
OBJECTIVE
Numerous studies show changes in vulnerability to false memory formation across development and into senescence. No study, however, has compared false memory formation in the critical transition period spanning late adolescence to middle adulthood.
METHOD
Using the Deese-Roediger-McDermott (DRM) paradigm, we explored the effects of age and of emotion on false memory formation in youth (16 to 23 years of age) and in middle-aged adults (29 to 58 years of age).
RESULTS
We found that youth endorsed more false lure items than middle-aged adults. This increased vulnerability to false memory formation stemmed from a more liberal response bias in the younger group.
CONCLUSIONS
Youth have a more liberal response criterion than middle-aged adults that contributes to an increased vulnerability to false memory formation. Subsequent age-related changes in response bias may reflect the maturation of frontal and temporal regions. In youth, a more liberal response bias may contribute to the heightened propensity for poor decision-making seen in this population.
目的
大量研究表明，在整个发育过程直至衰老阶段，错误记忆形成的易感性都会发生变化。然而，尚无研究比较过从青春期晚期到中年这一关键过渡阶段的错误记忆形成情况。
方法
我们采用迪斯-罗迪格-麦克德莫特（DRM）范式，探究了年龄和情绪对青年（16至23岁）及中年成年人（29至58岁）错误记忆形成的影响。
结果
我们发现，青年比中年成年人认可更多错误诱捕项目。这种对错误记忆形成的易感性增加源于较年轻群体中更宽松的反应偏差。
结论
青年比中年成年人有更宽松的反应标准，这导致其对错误记忆形成的易感性增加。随后与年龄相关的反应偏差变化可能反映了额叶和颞叶区域的成熟。在青年中，更宽松的反应偏差可能导致该群体中出现的决策能力差的倾向增加。
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