Article Comprehension check 4 Flashcards
what can happen after ppl receive new info that is misleading in some ways
they may make errors when they report on what they saw
what happened with the killing video experiment
ppl thought the car was white wen they had recieved phony info
what happened with chris
he was led to believe he had been lost in a shopping mall, and even had detailed memories of the incident that grew stronger over the first five days of the experiment. he had a lot of trouble believing that it wasn’t actually true
what happened in the shopping mall exp
some ppl believed it and others did not
what happened in the exp with the three made up stories
some ppl believed it and others did not- some ppl didnt believe it during the first interview but at the third some ppl provided info even tho they didnt recall it during the first interivew
what have the two decades of research on memory distortion shown
memory can be altered via suggestion