False perceptions of false memories.

We argue that the preceding comment by J. J. Freyd and D. H. Gleaves (see record 83:25318) on H. L. Roediger and K. B. McDermott's (see record 1995-42833-001) 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 of relatedness in producing false memories. In proposing a critical experiment indented to illuminate the debate about memory recovery in therapy, it is Freyd and Gleaves who generalize directly from a laboratory experiment to complicated events in therapy. However, our analysis of their proposed experiment finds it irrelevant to the development of false memories, either inside or outside the lab. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)