Implicit and Explicit False Memories conditioned by lapse of time

Andreea HOROIȚĂ; Adrian OPRE

doi:10.24193/subbpsyped.2024.2.03

Authors

Andreea HOROIȚĂ Doctoral School of Applied Cognitive Psychology, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Email: andreeahoroita@psychology.ro
Adrian OPRE Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Email: adrianopre@psychology.ro https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4041-0659

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24193/subbpsyped.2024.2.03

Keywords:

False memories, implicit false memories, explicit false memories, true memories, delay

Abstract

False memories represent distorted memories which are remembered incorrectly or didn’t happen at all in reality. In the present study, the period of time between encoding and testing has been manipulated, in order to explore the effects of delay on implicit and explicit false memories. Two groups of subjects were tested, using the DRM paradigm, for false implicit and explicit memories. One group had no delay period between encoding and test phases, the other group was tested at one week delay after the encoding phase. Results showed no significant differences between implicit and explicit false memories. The delay had significant effect only for true memories, which were significantly lower after one-week delay. Conclusions and future directions of research are discussed.

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