Nancy and others interested:
I've found that this list works best. In some cases I've had more than
half the class say that they recalled the critical nonpresented lure
(sweet, in this case) as having appeared in the following list: candy,
sour, sugar, bitter, good, taste, tooth, nice, honey, soda, chocolate,
heart, cake, eat, pie. In class I tell people to listen closely to the a
list of words because their memory for list items will be tested later.
I then read each word out loud (about one per second) then immediately
afterwards, ask them to write down on a piece of paper as many words as
they can recall. After about 2-3 min. of recalling, I ask students to
raise their hands if they wrote down words like taste, candy, nice, etc.
that were in fact on the list, as well as words like POINT that were not
on the list (for which, of course, no one raises their hands), and then
finally I ask how many people wrote down the word SWEET. Works very well.
Cheers,
Matthew Prull
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> This question is from me. I have seen demonstrations of those word lists that
> are organized around a central theme, but lack the most obvious word. They
> are read to a subject who then tries to recall them, usually giving the theme
> word as one of those read aloud, even though it wasn't. I have tried to make
> up versions of these lists, but mine are never very good. Does anyone here
> have some better versions of this "false memory" task?"
>
> Thanks for your help in this matter.
>
> Nancy Melucci
> LACCD
