Trecroce, Miranda L
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Audience: Undergraduate. -- Dissertation: Thesis (B. A.). -- Algoma University, 2007. -- Submitted in partial fulfillment of course requirements for PSYC 4105. -- Includes tables. -- Contents: Literature review / Thesis.
The purpose of this experiment was to investigate how warning instructions informing participants about the false memory phenomena could reduce the recall of false memories of an event. A total of 60 undergraduate students saw a 40 second video clip depicting an auto-motorcycle accident. Participants received either neutral instructions or warning instructions prior to watching the video clip. Later, participants were exposed to either correct or misleading post-event information and warning instructions correctly recalled more events than those who did not receive a warning. Results suggest that warning instructions given prior to the encoding of an event to participants who received misleading post-event information can help reduce the occurrence of false memories. Further, warnings given to participants who received correct post-event information resulted in an increase in false recall.
