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5088.4 Identity as a mediator of the relationships between adolescent well-being and career
development, Vladimir Skorikov, University of Hawaii at Hilo, USA
Adolescence is the time of active identity formation and increasing involvement in normative
career development processes. Identity theory predicts that a newly formed sense of identity
serves as an integrating mechanism, which mediates the effects of developmental successes and
failures on adolescents. Thus, we hypothesized that identity mediates the relationship between
progress in career development and psychological well-being. In a series of studies, we found that,
indeed, there was a strong, positive association between various career development and
well-being measures in identity-achieved adolescents and no association in those who have not yet
established a sense of identity.
5089 ORAL
Learning, memory and cognition
Chair: Hartmut Blank, Germany
5089.2 Material and sensory modalities effects on false recognition in aging, Sabine Langevin,
Hélène Sauzeon, Bernard Claverie, Bernard N'kaoua, Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives,
France
Picture induces less false recognition than word, especially for old people. According to the source
monitoring framework, false recognition reduction results from a specific or elaborate encoding
which underline two main memory errors: Reality monitoring, related to the associative strength
(weak associated item versus strong), and the External source, related to a low perceptual
discrimination of information (unimodal versus multimodal approach). Using misleading
information paradigm, the aim of this study was to determine if the differences between words and
pictures across sensory modalities are due to the reduction of one kind of memory error or both.
5089.3 How many hindsight biases are there? Hartmut Blank, Institut fuer Allgemeine
Psychologie, University of Leipzig, Germany
Often, the hindsight bias is characterized as (1) increased foreseeability perceptions
("I-knew-it-all-along effect") or (2) distorted recollections of prior predictions of an event
outcome, implicitly assuming that these characterizations are equivalent and reflect a unitary
phenomenon. Contrary to this assumption, data from three studies on the hindsight bias in political
elections show that foreseeability perceptions are uncorrelated with memory distortions, although
both components are themselves reliably assessed. Further, two independent variables had
opposite effects on the two components. An important implication of these results is that
theoretical explanations of the hindsight bias may be actually limited to but one component.
5089.4 The false recognition of human faces, Haiyan Geng, Yaqiong Qi, Wenjing Cai, Zijing
He, Liang Li, Department of Psychology, Peking University, China
A common experience is that similarity in human faces can give rise to memory illusion. How
similar to a face you know will lead to false recognition? This study explored false recognition of
human faces by using morphing technique. The experimental results showed that 50% old-old
morphed faces were more frequently false recognized than 50% old-new morphed faces, and the
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