“False Recall of Critical Lures in Students with Diagnosed Learning Disabilities”: A Historical Correction and a Brief Commentary

Abstract

Referring to a popular procedure for examining false recall, in 2007 Branch, et al. stated that its two acronyms (“DRM” and “DRMRS”) reflected variations in the procedure at the time of testing. However, the acronyms primarily reflect variations in the people to whom the basic procedure should be attributed. A calculation error in their paper is also corrected, and it is observed that magnitudes of both false recall and correct recall obtained by their young adolescents with no learning difficulties are similar to those with adults. Theoretical implications are discussed.