Simulation, False Memories, and the Planning of Future Events

Autor/inn/en	Dewhurst, Stephen A.; Anderson, Rachel J.; Grace, Lydia; Howe, David
Titel	Simulation, False Memories, and the Planning of Future Events
Quelle	In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 45 (2019) 1, S.26-36 (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0278-7393
DOI	10.1037/xlm0000575
Schlagwörter	Experimental Psychology; Memory; Planning; Visualization; Nouns; Schemata (Cognition); Recognition (Psychology); Undergraduate Students; Foreign Countries; United Kingdom (England) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Experimentelle Psychologie; Gedächtnis; Ablaufplanung; Planungsprozess; Visualisation; Visualisierung; Cognition; Schema; Kognition; Recognition; Wiedererkennen; Ausland
Abstract	Three experiments investigated the relationship between future thinking and false memories. In Experiment 1, participants remembered familiar events (e.g., a holiday) from their past, imagined planning the same events in the future, or took part in a control condition in which they visualized typical events. They then rated a series of schema-related and schema-unrelated nouns for how likely they were to be encountered within those events. In a surprise recognition test, participants in the future condition falsely recognized more schema-related items than participants in the past and control conditions. No reliable effects of rating condition were observed in correct recognition. Experiment 2 found the same pattern when participants imagined unfamiliar events (e.g., taking part in a bank robbery) from past or future perspectives. Participants in Experiment 3 remembered a past or imagined a future holiday and were then instructed to generate items that someone might take on a holiday. Participants in the future condition generated more nonstudied items and fewer studied items relative to participants in the past condition. The findings of Experiments 1 and 2 indicate that simulating future events enhances the activation of related items that gives rise to false memories. The findings of Experiment 3 suggest that these activation processes play an adaptive role in guiding the planning of future events. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01