Huff Mark J, Bodner Glen E
1 The University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS, USA.
2 College of Education, Psychology and Social Work, Flinders University, Adelaide SA, Australia.
Q J Exp Psychol (Hove). 2019 Jun;72(6):1493-1506. doi: 10.1177/1747021818801427. Epub 2018 Oct 1.
Using the Deese-Roediger-McDermott (DRM) paradigm, Huff and Bodner found that both item-specific and relational variants of a task improved correct recognition, but only the item-specific variants reduced false recognition, relative to a read-control condition. Here, we examined the outcome pattern when memory was tested using free recall, using the same item-specific versus relational task variants across three experiments as our previous study (processing instructions, pleasantness ratings, anagram generation). The outcome pattern in recall was similar to recognition, except relational processing at study actually reduced the DRM illusion, though not as much as item-specific processing. To reconcile this task difference, we suggest that the memory information laid down during relational encoding enhances the familiarity of the critical items at test. To the extent that familiarity is used less as a basis for responding in free recall than in recognition, relational processing ironically reduces rather than increases the DRM illusion in recall.
赫夫和博德纳使用迪斯-罗迪格-麦克德莫特（DRM）范式发现，相对于阅读控制条件，任务的特定项目变体和关系变体都提高了正确识别率，但只有特定项目变体减少了错误识别。在此，我们通过自由回忆测试记忆时，在三个实验中使用了与我们之前的研究相同的特定项目与关系任务变体（加工指令、愉悦度评分、字谜生成），来检验结果模式。回忆中的结果模式与识别相似，只是学习时的关系加工实际上减少了DRM错觉，尽管不如特定项目加工减少得多。为了调和这种任务差异，我们认为关系编码过程中存储的记忆信息增强了测试时关键项目的熟悉度。就自由回忆中使用熟悉度作为反应基础的程度低于识别而言，具有讽刺意味的是，关系加工在回忆中减少而不是增加了DRM错觉。
