Critical Lure Word Recall Report

There are many connections that can be made from inside the lab and the real world. In my results from the four recall lists my overall percentage for correct recalled words was 60% and Critical Lure word recall was 75%. Critical lure words or the words expected or associated with the lists can be seen in the real world in slightly different ways. For example, forgetting where you placed your keys even if you normally always put them in the same place such as on a kitchen bench and you expect them to be there because you associate them with that place. However, although that’s the expected location, they may be in another place such as your bag. Because of past experience and anticipations a person may believe they saw them on the bench when …show more content…
Two of which I stated I knew were in the list confidently, one which I remembered seeing and the other I was unsure. This can be seen outside the lab in Kosslyn et al. (2014) based on Loftus and Pickrell (1995) research where adults were asked to read about being lost in a mall and when they could have experienced that. They were later interviewed and even the adults who had never been lost in a mall recall having a similar experience as those who did get lost as children. Over time and trying to recall a similar situation to the initial stories they read made them more confident that they experienced it. Comparable to how I was in the recall test as based on all the similar words I expected the Critical lure words to be present based on expectation and as time passed I became more confident they were there. The Mall experiment is similar as when they were shown pictures of their ‘experience’ later on, and because being lost in a mall is quite a common occurrence they would simply expect that they were lost at one point and as time passes more false memories would appear shown as specific details they recall that didn’t actually