Chan, Thomas, and Bulevich (2009) demonstrate how easily is to shape and change the person’s memory. Chan, Thomas, and Bulevich hypothesized that when someone takes an immediate test it may reduce the likelihood to be influenced to misinformation. The researchers were inspired by Loftus misinformation effect study; known as Loftus’s misinformation paradigm. Chan, Thomas, and Bulevich (2009) believed that when someone is exposed to immediate recall testing people should be able to enhance retention of what the witness had seen which would reduce the likelihood to be influenced to misinformation. For instance, those who have received misinformation are less likely to remember than those who did not received the misinformation. In order to test this hypothesizes Chan, Thomas, and Bulevich conducted an experiment where they compared the recall performance
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(2009) performed a three-way interaction of testing condition (test vs. no-test), item type (consistent vs. control vs. misleading), and response type (correct answer vs. misinformation). In the experiment the participants consisted of thirty-six undergraduate students from Washington University in St, Louis. Participants were divided into two groups: those who viewed forty minutes of an episode of the show “24” then took an immediate cued-recall test on 24 details that were in the video. For example, some of the questions asked included “what did the terrorist use to knock out the flight attendant?” While those in the no-test conditioned played the game Tetris. The subjects in both test and the no-test condition completed a demographic questionnaire and two distractor tasks that included a synonyms and antonym vocabulary test and a computerized operation span (Chan et al., 2009). Then participants listened to an eight-minute audio narrative that described the video but some of the information that was conducted was untrue however the participants were not aware of
(2009) performed a three-way interaction of testing condition (test vs. no-test), item type (consistent vs. control vs. misleading), and response type (correct answer vs. misinformation). In the experiment the participants consisted of thirty-six undergraduate students from Washington University in St, Louis. Participants were divided into two groups: those who viewed forty minutes of an episode of the show “24” then took an immediate cued-recall test on 24 details that were in the video. For example, some of the questions asked included “what did the terrorist use to knock out the flight attendant?” While those in the no-test conditioned played the game Tetris. The subjects in both test and the no-test condition completed a demographic questionnaire and two distractor tasks that included a synonyms and antonym vocabulary test and a computerized operation span (Chan et al., 2009). Then participants listened to an eight-minute audio narrative that described the video but some of the information that was conducted was untrue however the participants were not aware of