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 recall was decreased on instruction condition, however, the
instruction did not influence correct recall. These results suggest that
directed forgetting instruction selectively affect to false memory. However, correct
recall often decreases directed forgetting instruction. Therefore further work
is needed to explore this effect.
