D'Souza, Charlotte (2022) What is the effect of recalling 12 compared to 4 negative childhood memories on metamemory beliefs? Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
The ongoing discourse since the 1990 memory wars has questioned the veracity of certain beliefs about human memory. A prominent yet highly controversial belief is that certain memories can be repressed and recovered later in life. This concept is especially relevant in therapeutic and legal settings, and for society. Previous research found that subjective experience of recall difficulty can influence one's beliefs about their memory. Metamemory beliefs include judgements about accessibility, completeness, unspecified repression beliefs, specified repression beliefs, and childhood pleasantness. This study aimed to replicate findings and explore the correlation between baseline and post-measure beliefs. Participants (N = 112) were asked to recall either 4 negative childhood memories (easy) or 12 negative childhood memories (difficult). Metamemory beliefs were assessed before and after recall. Subjective difficulty of recall was also reported. Overall, in the 12-memory condition, participants experienced the task difficulty to be greater than those in the 4-memory condition. Specified and unspecified repression on average were statistically different from each other. Between conditions, no significant change from baseline to post measure was found. When conditions were assessed separately, completeness was positively associated with childhood pleasantness, specified repression and unspecified repression. Specified repression was negatively associated with accessibility. The correlation between baseline accessibility and completeness and post-measure repression beliefs and childhood pleasantness did not significantly differ between conditions.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Supervisor name: | Wessel, J.P. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | Other [Bachelor Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Mar 2022 07:42 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Mar 2022 07:42 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/252 |
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