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distinctiveness heuristic: a standalone construct

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Cognitive psychology

a retrieval strategy in which people reject a lure because it lacks the vivid, distinctive detail they expect a true memory to have.

In cognitive psychology, distinctiveness heuristic refers to a retrieval strategy in which people reject a lure because it lacks the vivid, distinctive detail they expect a true memory to have. This meaning comes from Schacter (1999) in Journal of Memory and Language.[1]

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References

Schacter, D. L., Israel, L., & Racine, C. (1999). Suppressing False Recognition in Younger and Older Adults: The Distinctiveness Heuristic. Journal of Memory and Language, 40(1), 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1006/jmla.1998.2611

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