Mandela Effect Quiz Research & Best Practices 5

Question 1

In the Deese-Roediger-McDermott procedure, participants study words like bed, rest, and tired, then often falsely recall which word?

Accepted Answer

Sleep

Answer

The unseen related word "sleep" is frequently recalled, showing how associations create false memories.

Question 2

What did the "lost in the mall" study by Loftus and Pickrell (1995) demonstrate?

Accepted Answer

People can be led to believe in a childhood event that never happened

Answer

Some participants accepted and elaborated a suggested false childhood memory.

Question 3

The Neisser and Harsch study of the Challenger explosion found that flashbulb memories:

Accepted Answer

Were vivid and confident but often inaccurate

Answer

Participants' later accounts differed from their initial notes while confidence stayed high.

Question 4

What is cryptomnesia?

Accepted Answer

Mistaking a forgotten memory for a new original idea

Answer

A person unknowingly reuses a remembered idea, believing it is new.

Question 5

Which tool is most useful for checking how a web page or logo looked in past years?

Accepted Answer

The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine

Answer

The Wayback Machine stores dated snapshots of web pages.

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