Process Dissociation as Source Monitoring

A 2-high-threshold model source-monitoring model ( U. J. Bayen, K. Murnane, & E. Erdfelder, 1996 ) was applied to both source-monitoring and process-dissociation data collected varying source and distracter similarity. The model fit both sets of data using identical parameter values. The values of the detection parameter, D , and the source-discrimination parameter, d , varied in the manner expected. Also, neither the process-dissociation ( L. L. Jacoby, 1991 ) nor the extended process-dissociation model ( A. Buchner, E. Erdfelder, & B. Vaterrodt-Plünnecke, 1995 ) fit either type of data. The memory processes involved in recognition judgments are the same when using the process-dissociation or the source-monitoring procedure. The 4 cognitive processes in both procedures can be interpreted as item detection, source identification, recognition guessing, and source guessing. The potential role of unconscious memory influences via the 2 guessing processes is discussed.