Late consequences of early selection: when memory monitoring backfires

Zawadzka, K. ORCID: 0000-0003-0214-1184, Hanczakowski, M. and Wilding, E.L., 2017. Late consequences of early selection: when memory monitoring backfires. Journal of Memory and Language, 92, pp. 114-127. ISSN 0749-596X

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Abstract

At retrieval, people can adopt a retrieval orientation by which they recreate the mental operations used at encoding. Monitoring by retrieval orientation leads to assessing all test items for qualities related to the encoding task, which enriches foils with some of the qualities already possessed by targets. We investigated the consequences of adopting a retrieval orientation under conditions of repeated monitoring of the same
foils. Participants first processed foils in the context of one of two tests encouraging different retrieval orientations. The foils were then re-used on a subsequent test in which retrieval orientation either matched or mismatched that adopted on the first test. In the aggregate data, false alarms for repeated foils were higher when there was a match between the retrieval orientations on both tests. This demonstrates that when
retrieval orientation enriches foils with target-like characteristics, it can backfire when repeated monitoring of the same foils is required.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	Journal of Memory and Language
Creators:	Zawadzka, K., Hanczakowski, M. and Wilding, E.L.
Publisher:	Elsevier
Date:	February 2017
Volume:	92
ISSN:	0749-596X
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.1016/j.jml.2016.06.003 DOI
Rights:	© 2016. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
Divisions:	Schools > School of Social Sciences
Record created by:	Jill Tomkinson
Date Added:	17 Jun 2016 09:24
Last Modified:	19 Oct 2017 13:31
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/27994

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