Researchers have used the term false memory to describe various memory errors, including the incorporation of erroneous information into a memory, misremembering a word presented as a picture, and the construction of a detailed memory of an event that did not occur. Whether such diverse manifestations of false memory are assessing the same construct has not been evaluated. The purpose of this study is to examine the relations among a set of variables that have been used in the literature to measure false memory. The sample consisted of 112 college students who completed four false memory measures, including the commonly used Deese-Roediger-McDermott (DRM) and the misinformation tasks. Zero-order correlations indicated that there are little to no associations between false memories in the DRM and the misinformation tasks, as well as the other false memory tasks. A confirmatory factor analysis of the DRM and misinformation variables further suggested that the false memory variables share little variance in common and may not be represented by a unitary factor. Thus, the results of the current study suggest that tasks intended to measure false memory may be measuring different types of memory errors.

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调查错误记忆的不同措施之间的关系

研究人员使用“虚假记忆”一词来描述各种记忆错误，包括将错误信息纳入记忆、错误记住以图片形式呈现的单词，以及构建未发生事件的详细记忆。错误记忆的这种不同表现是否正在评估相同的结构尚未得到评估。本研究的目的是检查文献中用于测量错误记忆的一组变量之间的关系。样本由 112 名大学生组成，他们完成了四种错误记忆测量，包括常用的 Deese-Roediger-McDermott (DRM) 和错误信息任务。零阶相关性表明 DRM 中的错误记忆与错误信息任务之间几乎没有关联，以及其他虚假记忆任务。对 DRM 和错误信息变量的验证性因素分析进一步表明，虚假记忆变量的共同点差异很小，可能无法由单一因素表示。因此，当前研究的结果表明，旨在测量错误记忆的任务可能是测量不同类型的记忆错误。