Adult memory for specific instances of a repeated event: a preliminary review

Dilevski, Natali; Paterson, Helen M.; Walker, Sharyn M.; Golde, Celine van

doi:10.1080/13218719.2020.1837031

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“…source monitoring processes, Johnson et al, 1993; gist vs verbatim memory traces, Reyna and Brainerd, 1995) for the process of recalling a specific instance of a schematic event (known as particularization, e.g. Kontogianni et al, 2021), several are consistent with the observation that people remember well how a recurring event typically occurs while remembering relatively poorly the specific details of individual occurrences (for recent reviews, see Brubacher and Earhart, 2019;Dilevski et al, 2020).…”

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“That’s the way my Wednesdays always go”: reverse-order instructions insufficient to mitigate schema-consistent errors in alibi generation

Eastwood

Snow

Freedman

2021

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Purpose The purpose of this study was to assess the ability of innocent suspects to produce accurate alibis, as well as to identify procedures police interviewers can use to increase the probability of generating accurate alibis. Design/methodology/approach In Study 1, 54 university students had a lecture (target event) end at either the normal time (schema group) or 25 min early (non-schema group) and then attempted to generate an alibi for the target event after either a short, moderate or long delay. In Study 2, 20 students had a lecture end 25 min early and underwent an interview regarding their whereabouts using a reverse-order interview technique designed to disrupt schema usage. Findings Results from Study 1 suggested that participants relied on schemas to generate their alibis, which led to false alibis for the non-schema group, and this reliance was more pronounced as the delay between event and recall increased. In Study 2, all but one participant produced a false alibi, suggesting reverse order is ineffective in increasing accurate recall in alibi situations. Practical implications Results from the two studies revealed that people can produce false alibis easily in mock police interviews – a finding that appears to result from the reliance on schemas. These findings highlight the relative ease with which innocent individuals can produce false alibis. Further research, specific to the alibi generation process, is needed to give police interviewers the tools to produce more accurate and detailed alibis. Originality/value This research provides additional evidence regarding the role of schemas in alibi generation. Contrary to findings from the eyewitness area, reverse-order instructions failed to disrupt schema reliance and do not appear to be an effective alibi-elicitation technique.

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confidence: 53%

“That’s the way my Wednesdays always go”: reverse-order instructions insufficient to mitigate schema-consistent errors in alibi generation

Eastwood

Snow

Freedman

2021

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“…In the extant literature addressing memory for REs, research has mainly focused on neutral or fun sessions in children, whereas research on memory for repeated negative events, particularly among adults, is in its infancy (for a recent review, see Dilevski, Paterson, Walker, & van Golde, 2020). Among a few notable exceptions, Goodman et al (1994) interviewed children (ages 3–10) about a recent stressful medical procedure that had occurred once or was the last in a series of multiple procedures.…”

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How do adults with post‐traumatic stress disorder from childhood trauma talk about single versus repeated traumas?

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Connolly

Brewin

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Applied Cognitive Psychology

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Adults with posttraumatic stress disorder from childhood trauma (ch-PTSD) described their 'worst' traumatic event (a single or repeated event) pre-post treatment for PTSD during an international clinical trial. The memory reports were coded for specificity (Episodic vs. General) and level of detail. Repeated event (RE) narratives contained more generic and fewer episodic references but no more details than memories describing single events (SEs). Analysis of a subset of the sample's posttreatment memory reports found 38% of the information units were consistent with the pre-treatment narrative, 38% were omitted, 21% were new details and 2% were changes. The SE and RE groups did not differ on consistency. The data provide a unique insight into single versus repeated event memory reporting in a clinical sample with PTSD from childhood trauma.

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“…These reports of dietary consumption rely on people's memories, which has led to criticisms about the validity of the information reported because they are not direct measures of intake and there is no way to determine whether the reported consumption matches people's actual consumption (e.g., Archer et al, 2018; although see Martin‐Calvo & Martinez‐González, 2018). In the current study, we considered dietary consumption to be a repeated event because meals are similar types of experiences that involve the same actions, and often occur in the same locations with the same people (Dilevski, Paterson, Walker, & van Golde, 2021).…”

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“…Experimental research examining adults' memories for repeated events has demonstrated that, compared to a single event, people who have experienced a repeated event have more accurate reports of details that stayed the same across events, but less accurate reports of details that changed across events (see Dilevski, Paterson, Walker, & van Golde, 2021, for a review, see Woiwod et al, 2019, for a review on children's memories for repeated events). Typically, repeated‐event experiments consist of a series of activities that occur in the same temporal order each time (e.g., Danby et al, 2022; Deck & Paterson, 2021; Sharman et al, 2022).…”

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“…In other words, repeated‐event participants are more likely to make internal intrusion errors , such as reporting that they tasted a pear in the first episode, when it actually happened in the third episode. However, repeated‐event participants are less likely to make external intrusion errors than single‐event participants (Dilevski, Paterson, Walker, & van Golde, 2021; Woiwod et al, 2019); these types of errors occur when participants report details that did not occur in any of the episodes.…”

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Exploring adults' dietary reporting accuracy using a repeated events framework

Sharman,

Hayden,

Danby

et al. 2023

Applied Cognitive Psychology

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Self-reported dietary intake is commonly used to inform policy; however, memory-based reports are subject to error. Our aim was to examine dietary reporting errors using a repeated-events framework. Participants (N = 102) completed a 3-day food diary and 10 days later recalled what they had consumed on one self-nominated day and one experimenter-nominated day from the diary period. Self-nominated day reports were more accurate than experimenter-nominated day reports. Across both days, participants made more errors by reporting a food from the wrong day than by reporting foods not recorded in the diary at all. Unexpectedly, participants who completed their food-diary across Sunday-Monday-Tuesday were more accurate than those who completed across Thursday-Friday-Saturday, and participants who completed the study in 2020 were more accurate than those who completed it in 2021/2. Overall, results are consistent with the repeated events literature and outline a new approach to better understand dietary self-reporting.

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Adult memory for specific instances of a repeated event: a preliminary review

Cited by 16 publications

References 58 publications

“That’s the way my Wednesdays always go”: reverse-order instructions insufficient to mitigate schema-consistent errors in alibi generation

“That’s the way my Wednesdays always go”: reverse-order instructions insufficient to mitigate schema-consistent errors in alibi generation

How do adults with post‐traumatic stress disorder from childhood trauma talk about single versus repeated traumas?

Exploring adults' dietary reporting accuracy using a repeated events framework

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