The Research Of The Influence Of Processing Stituation And Part-List Cuing On Associative False Memory Of College Student

Associative false memory is the most general one kind in false memory,and it is affected by many factors. There has not yet been a theoretical model could cover all of the facts about associative false memory, although many researchers have do their best to study on it to explore the relevant factors of false memory, such as information encoding stage, retain stage, extract stage, factors of subjects themselves and the materials, and find the way to control it and great progress have been made. Up to now, a great of progresses have been made by them.Survival advantage effect of memory is a new perspective of memory research. It is from the view of the ecological and evolutionary psychology. This kind of effect has been certified that it could promote memory retention. In this research, we used survival evaluation processing situation in learning stage of DRM to elicit the survival advantage effect. And we explain it to be one factor that would reduce the associated false memory. In this study, two experiments were designed. The purpose of experiment 1 is to test if the different situation could change false recall and how the survival advantage effect of memory work on it even during different individuals whohave different level of NFC (need for cognition). At the same time, we also try to research the differences in memory of them. Experiment 2 is to explore further if the survival advantage effect would affect the amount of false recall in free recall process. Also we design the part-list cuing in information extraction stage as an independent variable to observe the variation of the correct and the false recall and if the survival advantage effect can interferer part-list cuing. Finally, the conclusions as follows: First, in the survival evaluation processing situation, there are more correct recognitions and more false recognitions. That is survival advantage effect of increasing right memory at the same time, failed to reduce the association false memory instead increased it. And it is more sensibility in free recall than recognition.Second, the college students who have high level NFC do better in cognitive task than the low level's. But also because the more deeply information processing, more false memories are generated by them regardless of processing situation. Third, despite in the survival evaluation processing situation or the general semantic processing situation, part-list cuing does not only reduce the quantity of correct recall, but also inhibit the associative false memory.