Abstract
The results of experiment 1 of Marsh, McDermott, & Roediger (2004) showed the possibility that false recognition occurred because of semantic activation in retrieval. However, in their results, the recognition rate of related words was not higher than unrelated words in non-study condition. From the above facts, it was unlikely that each related word itself was activated, which indicated that false recognition may have occurred even if each related word itself is not activated. Therefore, it can be thought that there are both implicit and explicit activation of each related word. In this study, participants were required to encode related words either explicitly (explicit condition) or implicitly (implicit condition), and we examined whether there is two distinct processes on the occurrence of false recognition.
