Beato, M. S. 1 , Pulido, R. F. 1 , Pinho, M. S. 2 , Gozalo, M. 3 & Cadavid, S. 1
1 Universidad de Salamanca. Spain
2 Universidade de Coimbra. Portugal
3 Universidad de Extremadura. Spain
A normative study was conducted using the Deese/Roediger-McDermott paradigm to obtain false recognition for 75 six-word lists in Spanish. In this paradigm, participants study word lists highly associated with a nonpresented critical word. Using this procedure, true recall and recognition of the studied words is observed at the same time as false recall and recognition of the critical words. In this study the 75 lists were designed with a new methodology: Six words (e.g., fire, war, gun, weapon, shot, bullet) simultaneously associated with three critical words (e.g., CANNON, FUSIL, RIFLE). Forward associative strength between critical and lists words was taken into account when creating the lists. Results showed that all lists produced false recognition and presented a wide variability in the effectiveness to elicit false recognition. Moreover, some lists had a very high false recognition rate, interesting aspect to raise the signal-to-noise ratio in false recognition event-related potential studies.