FALSE PERCEPTIONS OF FALSE MEMORIES

We argue that the preceeding comment by J. J. Freyd and D. H. Gleaves (1946) on H. L. Roediger and K. B. McDermott's (1995) article contests claims that we never made. In this reply, we consider and rebut their arguments, defend our use of the term events, and consider the role o f relatedness in producing false memories. In proposing a critical exp eriment intended to illuminate the debate about memory recovery in the rapy, it is Freyd and Gleaves who generalize directly from a laborator y experiment to complicated events in therapy. However, our analysis o f their proposed experiment finds it irrelevant to the development of false memories, either inside or outside the lab.