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Chapters
- 00:05Title
- 00:37DRM Task Preparation
- 03:15Encoding Task
- 04:15Free Recall Test
- 05:01Recognition Test
- 05:51Results: False Memories Are Remembered More Often than True Memories 24 – 48 h after Encoding
- 06:34Conclusion
Here we present the Deese, Roediger and McDermott (DRM) task, a tool to study false memories in the laboratory. Subjects study lists of semantically related words (e.g., nurse, sick, etc.), and later falsely remember an unstudied word (doctor) that represents the gist, or theme, of the word list.
