Illusory correlations and memory performance

Article Abstract:

A study on the effects of illusory correlations on memory performance was conducted on sixty male and female psychology students. Illusory correlations create misleading negative impressions on a minority group that has a one to one or greater correlation of positive affects when compared to a majority group. Results fromthe study indicate that illusory correlations may be caused by information lossor impaired memory on the smaller observations made on the minority group over greater number of observations stemming from the majority group.

Psychological aspects, Correlation (Statistics)

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Do you really know what you have seen? Intrusion errors and presuppositions effects on constructive memory

Article Abstract:

Intrusion effects fail to confine to demand-like artifacts, conjectural evidence and other constraints of pragmatic communication errors. They are also unaffected by truncation of a critical assessment stage in the processing of false propositions, and guessing and low-level recognition. Intrusion errors are caused at a rate of 10 to 40 percent, by the simple raising of propositions about nonexisting objects. Thus, memory intrusions are noncontingent on affirmative reactions to the suggested information.

Analysis, Recovered memory (Psychology), Recovered memory

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Is mood congruency an effect of genuine memory or response bias?

Article Abstract:

Research presented concerns mood-congruent memory, or memory that is selective for stimuli that correlates to the subject's emotional state. Topics include the relationship between cognition and mood, and whether the mood-congruent effect is a genuine response of the memory or a response tendency in the subject to report memories that relate to their current moods.

United States, Germany, Statistical Data Included, Models, Cognition, Emotions, Mood (Psychology), Emotions and cognition

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