Abstract
This research combined the DRM paradigm with intentional/incidental learning paradigm, and participants received directed forgetting instruction. In this combined paradigm, participants were presented pairing words, and one side is learned intentionally and another side is learned incidentally. Using this paradigm, more intentional process and automatic process are examined simultaneously within participants. It is known from previous work that false recognition is influenced by the intentional process. Therefore, this study examined influence of directed forgetting that forget presented words consciously. As a result, false recognition was influenced by strongly intentional processing and by weakly incidental processing. However, the influence of directed forgetting instruction was not confirmed. It is assumed that the directed forgetting instruction is not effective for the decrease in false recognition in the DRM paradigm. But many participants introspected they could not forget. Therefore, further work is needed to explore this effect.
