Concept information
Preferred term
distinctiveness heuristic
Definition
- "a rule of thumb that leads people to demand recollections of distinctive details of an experience before they are willing to say that they remember it." (Schacter, 2021).
Broader concept
Belongs to group
Bibliographic citation(s)
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• 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
- • Schacter, D. L. (2021). The seven sins of memory : How the mind forgets and remembers (2nd ed.). Houghton Mifflin.
• Document type: literature review
• Access: closed
- • Schacter, D. L. (2021). The seven sins of memory : How the mind forgets and remembers (2nd ed.). Houghton Mifflin.
Creator
- Frank Arnould
In other languages
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French
URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/P66-V0KTM4MW-H
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