Process dissociation as source monitoring

J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn. 2000 Nov;26(6):1518-33. doi: 10.1037//0278-7393.26.6.1518.

Abstract

A 2-high-threshold model source-monitoring model (U. J. Bayen, K. Murnane, & E. Erdfelder, 1996) was applied to both source-monitoring and process-dissociation data collected varying source and distracter similarity. The model fit both sets of data using identical parameter values. The values of the detection parameter, D, and the source-discrimination parameter, d, varied in the manner expected. Also, neither the process-dissociation (L. L. Jacoby, 1991) nor the extended process-dissociation model (A. Buchner, E. Erdfelder, & B. Vaterrodt-Plünnecke, 1995) fit either type of data. The memory processes involved in recognition judgments are the same when using the process-dissociation or the source-monitoring procedure. The 4 cognitive processes in both procedures can be interpreted as item detection, source identification, recognition guessing, and source guessing. The potential role of unconscious memory influences via the 2 guessing processes is discussed.

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Consciousness
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Memory*
  • Mental Processes*
  • Models, Psychological
  • Unconscious, Psychology