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In the Deese-Roediger-McDermott procedure, participants study words like bed, rest, and tired, then often falsely recall which word?
Answer: Sleep
The unseen related word "sleep" is frequently recalled, showing how associations create false memories.
What did the "lost in the mall" study by Loftus and Pickrell (1995) demonstrate?
Answer: People can be led to believe in a childhood event that never happened
Some participants accepted and elaborated a suggested false childhood memory.
The Neisser and Harsch study of the Challenger explosion found that flashbulb memories:
Answer: Were vivid and confident but often inaccurate
Participants' later accounts differed from their initial notes while confidence stayed high.
What is cryptomnesia?
Answer: Mistaking a forgotten memory for a new original idea
A person unknowingly reuses a remembered idea, believing it is new.
Which tool is most useful for checking how a web page or logo looked in past years?
Answer: The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine
The Wayback Machine stores dated snapshots of web pages.
Many people recall a 1990s genie movie starring Sinbad called "Shazaam." What does the record show?
Answer: No such film exists; Kazaam starred Shaquille O'Neal
Kazaam (1996) starred Shaquille O'Neal, and no Sinbad genie film is documented.
What does "imagination inflation" refer to?
Answer: Imagining an event increases confidence it actually occurred
Repeatedly imagining an event can raise belief that it truly happened.
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