Episode Five: To Misname or be Misnamed (with Dr. Samantha Deffler)

As the U.S. election results pile in, Tolu and Kristina take a
break from the news to have a chat with York College of
Pennsylvania psychology professor, Dr. Samantha Deffler. They
have decided to dedicate November to Cognitive Psychology! Have
you ever been misnamed by someone familiar to you? Have you ever
been the misnamer? Why is it more likely to mix up the dog's name
with other family members than the cat's name? The term of the
episode (TOTE) is semantic memory.


Dr. Samantha Deffler’s article:


Deffler, S. A., Fox, C., Ogle, C. M., & Rubin, D. C. (2016).
All my children: The roles of semantic category and phonetic
similarity in the misnaming of familiar individuals. Memory &
cognition, 44(7), 989-999.


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