Monitoring item and source information : Evidence for a negative generation effect in source memory

Item memory and source memory were assessed in a task that simulated a social conversation. Participants generated answers to questions or read statements presented by one of three sources (faces on a computer screen). Positive generation effects were observed for item memory. That is, participants...

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Published in:Memory & cognition 1999-07, Vol.27 (4), p.648-656
Main Authors: JURICA, P. J, SHIMAMURA, A. P
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Alliances
Biological and medical sciences
Cognition
Cognition & reasoning
Face
Female
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Human
Humans
Learning. Memory
Linguistics
Male
Memory
Mental Recall
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Social Facilitation
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Summary:Item memory and source memory were assessed in a task that simulated a social conversation. Participants generated answers to questions or read statements presented by one of three sources (faces on a computer screen). Positive generation effects were observed for item memory. That is, participants remembered topics of conversation better if they were asked questions about the topics than if they simply read statements about topics. However, a negative generation effect occurred for source memory. That is, remembering the source of some information was disrupted if participants were required to answer questions pertaining to that information. These findings support the notion that item and source memory are mediated, as least in part, by different processes during encoding.
ISSN:0090-502X
1532-5946
DOI:10.3758/BF03211558