Kathleen McDermott
Kathleen McDermott appears on this site as second author of the 1995 paper on false recall and recognition of words not presented in lists.
Who they are
The work of Kathleen McDermott reaches this site through the paper listed below. On this site the name is tied to False Memory From Associated Words.
Key papers
Roediger, H. L., & McDermott, K. B. (1995). Creating false memories: Remembering words not presented in lists. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 21(4), 803-814. What it reports: Two experiments with lists of words all related to one word that was never shown. The missing word was recalled 40 per cent of the time in the first experiment and 55 per cent in the second, and was later recognised with high confidence.
Key ideas
False Memory From Associated Words: Recalling and recognising a word that was never presented because the studied words all relate to it.
Sources
- Roediger, H. L., & McDermott, K. B. (1995). Creating false memories: Remembering words not presented in lists. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 21(4), 803-814.