AUPSY 263 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Egg Salad, Forgetting Curve, Hypnosis

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Augustana Faculty - Psychology
• Course: AUPSY 263
• Professor: Kathie Bailey

Document Summary

Misinformation effect: when a person"s memory of an event becomes less accurate due to post-event information. Some asked how fast were the cars going when they smashed into each other? and some asked how fast were the cars going when they hit each other? . Participants who heard the word smashed reported that the cars were going faster than the participants who heard the word hit . Entire events can be implanted into memory. Participant will recall what was happening in the photo, even though it never happened. Participant is shown grade 2 class photo and told they misbehaved a lot. They will believe this even if it wasn"t true because the researcher has a photo, so they believe that the researcher knows what they were like in grade 2. Participant stops eating egg salad because researchers convinced them that they got very ill from egg salad when they were a child.