Abstract
This study was to examine two major theories of false memories; implicit activation and source monitoring approach, and fuzzy trace theory, with self-choice effect in the DRM paradigm. The self-choice effect is the superior memory performance observed when participants are allowed to choose the item at the study phase. Twenty participants studies four DRM lists in two conditions, forced condition and self-choice condition. And participants were asked to recall as many as possible. As s result, about list words and CLs associated from list words that were not chosen at study, self-choice effect was observed. And CLs associated from list words that were chosen at study, self-choice effect was observed. From the result that self-choice effect were observed about list items and CLs, implicit activation and source monitoring approach was supported.
