discrepancy-attribution hypothesis / hypothèse d'attribution de la divergence
Synonyms: discrepancy-attribution account
Group: Human, Psychology
Groupe : Homme, Psychologie
Domain: Psychology
Domaine : Psychologie
Semantic category: Human
Catégorie sémantique : Homme
Definition: The hypothesis to "explain the source of feelings of familiarity. By that hypothesis, people chronically evaluate the coherence of their processing. When the quality of processing is perceived as being discrepant from that which could be expected, people engage in an attributional process; the feeling of familiarity occurs when perceived discrepancy is attributed to prior experience." (Whittlesea & Williams, 2001b, p. 3).
Définition : Hypothèse visant à « expliquer la source des sentiments de familiarité. Selon cette hypothèse, les personnes évaluent chroniquement la cohérence de leur traitement des informations. Lorsque la qualité du traitement est perçue comme divergente de celle à laquelle elles pourraient s'attendre, les personnes s'engagent dans un processus d'attribution ; le sentiment de familiarité se produit lorsque la divergence perçue est attribuée à une expérience antérieure. » (Whittlesea & Williams, 2001b, p. 3).
Broader term: testable hypothesis
Terme générique : hypothèse testable
Related terms: processing fluency, Selective Construction and Preservation of Experience theory, familiarity, DRM memory illusion
Termes associés : fluence du traitement, théorie de la construction sélective et de la préservation des expériences, familiarité, illusion mnésique DRM
Selected bibliography: Karpicke, J. D., McCabe, D. P., & Roediger, H. L. (2008). False memories are not surprising : The subjective experience of an associative memory illusion. Journal of Memory and Language, 58(4), 1065‑1079. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2007.12.004 [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed], Whittlesea, B. W. A., & Williams, L. D. (2001b). The discrepancy-attribution hypothesis : I The heuristic basis of feelings and familiarity. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 27(1), 3‑13. https://doi.org/10.1037/0278-7393.27.1.3 [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed], Whittlesea, B. W. A., & Williams, L. D. (1998). Why do strangers feel familiar, but friends don’t? A discrepancy-attribution account of feelings of familiarity. Acta Psychologica, 98(2‑3), 141‑165. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0001-6918(97)00040-1 [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed], Whittlesea, B. W. A., & Williams, L. D. (2001a). The discrepancy-attribution hypothesis : II. Expectation, uncertainty, surprise, and feelings of familiarity. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 27(1), 14‑33. https://doi.org/10.1037/0278-7393.27.1.14 [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed], Whittlesea, B. W. A., & Williams, L. D. (2000). The source of feelings of familiarity : The discrepancy-attribution hypothesis. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 26(3), 547‑565. https://doi.org/10.1037/0278-7393.26.3.547 [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed], Whittlesea, B. W. A. (2002). False memory and the discrepancy-attribution hypothesis : The prototype-familiarity illusion. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 131(1), 96‑115. https://doi.org/10.1037/0096-3445.131.1.96 [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]