Fuzzy-Trace Theory and False Memory
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- 1 October 2002
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Current Directions in Psychological Science
- Vol. 11 (5) , 164-169
- https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8721.00192
Abstract
A key problem confronting theories of false memory is that false-memory phenomena are so diverse: Some are characteristic of controlled laboratory tasks, others of everyday life; some occur for traumatic events with legal consequences, others for innocuous events; some are characteristic of one developmental level, others of another developmental level. Fuzzy-trace theory explains false memories via a small set of principles that implement a single representational distinction. Those principles generate new predictions, some of which are counterintuitive.Keywords
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