Department
Psychology
Degree Name
Master of Science (MS)
Abstract
Roediger and McDermott (1995) began the bulk of the research on the Deese-Roediger/McDermott (DRM) Paradigm as applied to false memory and thus is the basis for this research. The ORM Paradigm showed that some memories could be created falsely in a laboratory setting. The current study examined the relations between the DRM Paradigm, life stress, and anxiety. The life stress measure was the College Undergraduate Stress Scale (CUSS) and the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) measured anxiety. A total of 56 undergraduate students participated in the experiment. Their data from a computer program designed to replicate Roediger and McDermott’s 1995 procedure was correlated with the data gathered from the CUSS and the STAI. It was found that the CUSS, the state anxiety measure and the trait anxiety measure (both from the STAI) were all not significantly correlated with the number of recall false alarms, the number of recognition false alarms or the number of correctly remembered words for the 8 lists.
Advisor
Robert Markley
Date of Award
Summer 2005
Document Type
Thesis - campus only access
Recommended Citation
Salinas, Yolanda, "False Memory and the Drm Paradigm: The Relations of Recall and Recognition with Stress and State-Trait Anxiety" (2005). Master's Theses. 2961.
DOI: 10.58809/YAVN3547
Available at:
https://scholars.fhsu.edu/theses/2961
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