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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).

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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

  • • 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

Creator

  • Frank Arnould

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