Have I remembered this before? : remembering (and forgetting) of prior remembering
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2001
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Arnold, Michelle Marie
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Schooler, Bendiksen, and Ambadar (1997) described cases of "recovered memories" of abuse in which individuals had forgotten episodes of talking about the abuse when they were supposedly amnestic for it. We developed a laboratory analogue of this "forgot-it-all-along" effect. In Experiment 1, participants studied homographs with disambiguating context words; in Test 1 they received studied- or other-context words as cues, and in Test 2 they received studied-context cues and judged whether they had recalled each item during Test 1. Experiment 2 manipulated retrieval cues on both tests. Experiments 3, S, and 6 were similar to Experiment I, but the cues always corresponded to the same meaning of each homograph. In Experiment 4, Test 1 was free recall and studied- versus other-context cues were presented in Test 2. Participants more often forget prior remembering when they bad been cued to think of the items differently on the two tests.