Table 1.

Experimental Materials and Procedures for False Memory Illusions

Old words (O)	New-similar words (NS)	New-different words (ND)
Neutral:  table, couch, desk, sofa.	chair, seat	city, music
Positive:  girl, beautiful, cute, nice	pretty, sweet	soft, warm
Negative:  mad, fear. hate, temper	anger, mean	spider, thief

Note. Subjects study word lists composed of related items, such as those in the left hand column, and they respond to a recall test or to a recognition test on which three types of test probes are presented: old (O) list words, new-similar (NS) words, and new-different (ND) words. On recall tests, the subjects’ task is to recall only O words. On recognition tests, the subjects’ task is to decide whether each test probe is O.