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information entity > scientific discourse > testable hypothesis > impoverished relational-encoding

Preferred term

impoverished relational-encoding  

Definition

  • A testable hypothesis stating that studying distinctive information reduces false memories because the distinctive details disrupt the encoding of relational or associative information, which is the primary source of such memory errors.

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Bibliographic citation(s)

  • • Hege, A. C. G., & Dodson, C. S. (2004). Why distinctive information reduces false memories: Evidence for both impoverished relational-encoding and distinctiveness heuristic accounts. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 30(4), 787–795. https://doi.org/10.1037/0278-7393.30.4.787

    • Document type: empirical study

    • Access: closed

Creator

  • Frank Arnould

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/P66-NJCNGK1S-V

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