Dear Tipsters,
Don McBurney wrote:
> Yes, I think we did discuss deja vu a while ago. One way to demonstrate deja
> vu is to read a list of words all having to do with a topic, such as sleep:
> tired, bed, rest... but leave out sleep. Later students will recall having
> heard sleep. I forget the reference off hand. I will include something I
> wrote on this.
Two points:
This is a well-known demonstration from the APA Activities book.
Author was Drew Appleby.
I used to think if it as deja vu as well, but now classify it as a
"false memory". I do not think that this reliable error fits the
phenomenology of deja vu. In fact, starting with Deese back in 1958
and resurrected recently by Roediger and McDermott and by Read, the
paradigm can be called the DRMR ("drummer") paradigm. It has been
extensively used over the past 4 years in 36 studies to examine false
recall and recognition in a variety of populations (although mainly
students).
Deese, J. (1959). On the prediction of occurrence of particular verbal
intrusions in immediate recall. Journal of Experimental Psychology,
58, 17-22.
Read, J. D. (1996). From a passing thought to a false
memory in 2 minutes: Confusing real and illusory events. Psychonomic
Bulletin & Review, 3 (1), 105-111.
Roediger, H., L., III, & McDermott, K. B. (1995). Creating false
memories: Remembering words not presented on lists. Journal of
Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 21,
803-814.
Here is one of the smaller contributions:
McKelvie, S. J. (1999). Effect of retrieval instructions on
false recall. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 88, 876-878.
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