Arndt Jason
a Department of Psychology , Middlebury College , Middlebury , VT , USA.
Memory. 2015;23(7):1093-111. doi: 10.1080/09658211.2014.959527. Epub 2014 Oct 14.
Two experiments examined the effects of forward associative strength (FAS) and backward associative strength (BAS) on false recollection of unstudied lure items. Themes were constructed such that four associates were strongly related to a lure item in terms of FAS or BAS and four associates were weakly related to a lure item in terms of FAS or BAS. Further, when FAS was manipulated, BAS was controlled across strong and weak associates, while FAS was controlled across strong and weak associates when BAS was manipulated. Strong associates were presented in one font while weak associates were presented in a second font. At test, lure items were disproportionately attributed to the source used to present lures' strong associates compared to lures' weak associates, both when BAS was manipulated and when FAS was manipulated. This outcome demonstrates that both BAS and FAS influence lure item false recollection, which favours global-matching models' explanation of false recollection over the explanation offered by spreading activation theories.
两项实验考察了前向联想强度（FAS）和后向联想强度（BAS）对未学习过的诱饵项目错误回忆的影响。构建了一些主题，使得四个联想在FAS或BAS方面与一个诱饵项目强相关，另外四个联想在FAS或BAS方面与一个诱饵项目弱相关。此外，当操纵FAS时，在强相关和弱相关联想中控制BAS；而当操纵BAS时，在强相关和弱相关联想中控制FAS。强相关联想用一种字体呈现，弱相关联想用另一种字体呈现。在测试中，无论是操纵BAS还是操纵FAS，与诱饵的弱相关联想相比，诱饵项目被不成比例地归因于用于呈现诱饵强相关联想的来源。这一结果表明，BAS和FAS都影响诱饵项目的错误回忆，这支持了全局匹配模型对错误回忆的解释，而不是扩散激活理论提供的解释。
