Rethinking the Consistency Assumptions of the Process-Dissociation Procedure
Yuh‐Shiow Lee, Chun-lie Fan, Ying Zhu · Psychology Press eBooks · 2020
This chapter deals with the problem of violating consistency assumptions, and describes a distinction between the estimated probabilities, P’(I) and P’(E), which are data from experiments, and the true probabilities, P(I) and P(E), which are values derived from the logic of the process dissociation model given no violation of consistency assumptions. It examines derived mathematically the true probabilities of I and E. These two values were theoretical probabilities assuming that the inclusion and exclusion performance are measured concurrently and thus the underlying assumptions are always met. According to the process-dissociation procedure, both conscious (R) and unconscious (A) components of memory can be estimated by contrasting the performance in an inclusion condition with that in an exclusion condition.