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I Forgot to Remember to Forget
Publication date: March 2020Source: Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, Volume 9, Issue 1Author(s): Colin M. MacLeod (Source: Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition)
Source: Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition - March 15, 2020 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research

The Adaptive Value of Forgetting: A Direction for Future Research
Publication date: March 2020Source: Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, Volume 9, Issue 1Author(s): Jeffrey D. Karpicke, Michelle E. Coverdale (Source: Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition)
Source: Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition - March 15, 2020 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research

Is Collective Forgetting Virtuous?
Publication date: March 2020Source: Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, Volume 9, Issue 1Author(s): William Hirst (Source: Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition)
Source: Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition - March 15, 2020 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research

It Matters What and Why We Forget: Comment on Fawcett and Hulbert
Publication date: March 2020Source: Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, Volume 9, Issue 1Author(s): Eugenia I. Gorlin, Bethany A. Teachman (Source: Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition)
Source: Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition - March 15, 2020 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research

Academic Forgetting
Publication date: March 2020Source: Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, Volume 9, Issue 1Author(s): Dorthe Berntsen, David C. Rubin (Source: Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition)
Source: Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition - March 15, 2020 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research

Editors Cause Academic Forgetting: A Reply to the Commentary by Berntsen and Rubin (2020)
Publication date: March 2020Source: Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, Volume 9, Issue 1Author(s): Paula T. Hertel (Source: Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition)
Source: Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition - March 15, 2020 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research

On Students’ (Mis)judgments of Learning and Teaching Effectiveness
Publication date: Available online 12 February 2020Source: Journal of Applied Research in Memory and CognitionAuthor(s): Shana K. Carpenter, Amber E. Witherby, Sarah K. TauberStudents’ judgments of their own learning are often misled by intuitive yet false ideas about how people learn. In educational settings, learning experiences that minimize effort and increase the appearance of fluency, engagement, and enthusiasm often inflate students’ estimates of their own learning, but do not always enhance their actual learning. We review the research on these “illusions of learning,” how they can mislead students’ evalu...
Source: Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition - February 13, 2020 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research

Caught Virtually Lying—Crime Scenes in Virtual Reality Help to Expose Suspects’ Concealed Recognition
In this study, participants committed a mock crime before being incentivized to conceal recognition of crime related details (e.g., the stolen item or crime scene). The crime scenes and objects were laser scanned, converted to photo-realistic models, and presented to suspects either in virtual reality (VR) or as 2D images on a computer screen. While concealing recognition of crime information, participants’ heart rate and skin conductance were measured using a Concealed Information Test (CIT) to assess recognition. Detection of concealed recognition increased by over 25% when participants viewed crime items in VR compare...
Source: Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition - February 1, 2020 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research

The Many Faces of Forgetting: Toward a Constructive View of Forgetting in Everyday Life
Publication date: Available online 21 January 2020Source: Journal of Applied Research in Memory and CognitionAuthor(s): Jonathan M. Fawcett, Justin C. HulbertForgetting is often considered a fundamental cognitive failure, reflecting the undesirable and potentially embarrassing inability to retrieve a sought-after experience or fact. For this reason, forgetfulness has been argued to form the basis of many problems associated with our memory system. We highlight instead how forgetfulness serves many purposes within our everyday experience, giving rise to some of our best characteristics. Drawing from cognitive, neuroscientif...
Source: Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition - January 22, 2020 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research

Contamination or Natural Variation? A Comparison of Contradictions from Suggested Contagion and Intrinsic Variation in Repeated Autobiographical Accounts
In this study we used the social contagion paradigm to investigate (a) the relative frequencies and types of contradictions resulting from outside suggestion and from natural variation, and (b) a baseline measure of variation in autobiographical memory accounts across retellings. Participants recalled memories of four personal events. One week later, participants and confederates alternated in describing their own and summarising each other's autobiographical events. The confederates included a contradictory contagion detail in two of the participants’ events. The participants then individually recalled their own events....
Source: Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition - January 22, 2020 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research

Should You Use Frequent Quizzing in Your College Course? Giving up 20 Minutes of Lecture Time May Pay Off
This study examined whether frequent testing would promote long-term retention of college-level course material. Students in a college course engaged in three different types of interval practice over the course of a 13-week semester: quizzes, quizzes with feedback, and study. We examined the impact of type of interval practice on performance on unit exams. Six exams were given that consisted of multiple choice (MC) questions presented during earlier practice, new highly related MC questions, and new highly related short answer (SA) questions. The variation in type of unit exam questions allowed for the examination of inte...
Source: Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition - January 21, 2020 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research

Marijuana Impairs the Accuracy of Eyewitness Memory and the Confidence–Accuracy Relationship Too
Publication date: Available online 20 January 2020Source: Journal of Applied Research in Memory and CognitionAuthor(s): Kathy Pezdek, Erica Abed, Daniel ReisbergMany factors that affect eyewitness identification accuracy do not affect the accuracy of high-confidence identifications. This is critical because legal cases are more likely to be prosecuted if they involve high-confidence eyewitnesses. Using a confidence–accuracy characteristic (CAC) analysis, we tested whether marijuana affects eyewitness memory generally and the accuracy of high-confidence judgments specifically. Marijuana users (N = 114) were rand...
Source: Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition - January 21, 2020 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research

Fair Forensic-Object Lineups Are Superior to Forensic-Object Showups
We examined whether the lineup advantage extends from facial identification to forensic-object identification. Participants (N = 1906) watched a short video of a car theft and then completed two culprit-present or culprit-absent showups or lineups. Participants first attempted to identify the culprit from the video and then attempted to identify the vehicle from the video. Forensic-object lineups were superior to forensic-object showups to the extent that the cost of an innocent-suspect identification exceeded the cost of a missed culprit identification or to the extent that the base rate of culprit presence was ...
Source: Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition - January 1, 2020 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research

Human Lie-Detection Performance: Does Random Assignment versus Self-Selection of Liars and Truth-Tellers Matter?
In this study, we directly compared receivers’ lie-detection accuracy when judging randomly assigned versus self-selected truth-tellers and liars. In a trust-game setting, senders were instructed to lie or tell the truth (random assignment; n = 16) or were allowed to choose to lie or tell the truth of their own accord (self-selection; n = 16). In a sample of receivers (N = 200), we tested two alternative hypotheses, predicting opposite effects of random assignment (vs. self-selection) on receivers’ lie-detection accuracy. Accuracy rates did not differ significantly as a function of veracit...
Source: Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition - December 26, 2019 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research

Clinical and Normative Aspects of Forgetting
Publication date: Available online 24 December 2019Source: Journal of Applied Research in Memory and CognitionAuthor(s): Walter Glannon (Source: Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition)
Source: Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition - December 24, 2019 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research