PSY30400 Chapter 8: Chapter 8 Part 8
Chapter 8: Everyday Memory and Memory Errors
• Jao Beoig Faous Overight Eperiet
o deostrated a effet of soure oitorig errors y testig sujets’ aility to
distinguish between famous and non-famous names
o Most interesting results revealed that when tested after a delay, subjects were more
likely to identify old non-famous names as being famous
▪ Consider the name of a non-famous person
• it seems familiar because you read it on the initial list, but you do not
know why it is familiar to you
o this is the source monitoring problem because you need to
determine the source of familiarity for the name
o Marsh experiment
▪ showed people’s perforae o a soure oitorig task a e iflueed
by gender stereotypes
▪ Method to test for source monitoring
• items that originate from specific sources are presented and the
sujet’s task i the later test sessio is to idiate whih soure was
associated with each item
• Subjects may be presented with statements and then have to identify
who said what
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