Cayden Brinton
Comp. 1
Edwards
30 October 2017
Mandela Effect
Debuted in 1962, millions of people grew up reading the well-known children’s book series, The Berenstain Bears. Being sold in more than 23 languages, the well loved stories were the common childhood memory of millions. The book expanded to become a tv series. With its popularity, it would only be natural that the name would be remembered. However, many fans remembered it as The Berenstein Bear with an “e” (Does This Picture Look a Bit off to You).
Movies like Star Wars and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs were watched by numerous of people of diverse age groups. What is one of the most remembered quote from the Star Wars franchise? Many would remembered the quote, “Luke, I am your …show more content…
Elizabeth Loftus, a famous psychologist, conducted an experiment in which groups of people were shown a video footage of the same car accident. Afterwards, individuals were asked questions similar to those policies and investigators would ask. One of the questions asked was “How fast were the cars going when they hit each other?” In the other groups, participant were asked instead “How fast were the cars going when they smashed into each other?” The small change in wording from “hit” to “smashed into” influence how people remembered the incident (What Is the Misinformation Effect & How Does It Lead to False Memories). Given the “hit” version, participants answered with an average of 31.8 miles per hour. Participants given the “smashed into” version answered with an average of 40.8 miles per hour (The Misinformation Effect). A week later, the participants were asked the question, “Did you see broken glass?” Most participant answered correctly with “no”, yet the participants given the “smashed into” version at the initial interview were twice as likely to give the incorrect answer. Given the “smashed into” version, the participants were certain that there was broken glass during the traffic accident. How could the same video produce different answers with a change of one
Comp. 1
Edwards
30 October 2017
Mandela Effect
Debuted in 1962, millions of people grew up reading the well-known children’s book series, The Berenstain Bears. Being sold in more than 23 languages, the well loved stories were the common childhood memory of millions. The book expanded to become a tv series. With its popularity, it would only be natural that the name would be remembered. However, many fans remembered it as The Berenstein Bear with an “e” (Does This Picture Look a Bit off to You).
Movies like Star Wars and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs were watched by numerous of people of diverse age groups. What is one of the most remembered quote from the Star Wars franchise? Many would remembered the quote, “Luke, I am your …show more content…
Elizabeth Loftus, a famous psychologist, conducted an experiment in which groups of people were shown a video footage of the same car accident. Afterwards, individuals were asked questions similar to those policies and investigators would ask. One of the questions asked was “How fast were the cars going when they hit each other?” In the other groups, participant were asked instead “How fast were the cars going when they smashed into each other?” The small change in wording from “hit” to “smashed into” influence how people remembered the incident (What Is the Misinformation Effect & How Does It Lead to False Memories). Given the “hit” version, participants answered with an average of 31.8 miles per hour. Participants given the “smashed into” version answered with an average of 40.8 miles per hour (The Misinformation Effect). A week later, the participants were asked the question, “Did you see broken glass?” Most participant answered correctly with “no”, yet the participants given the “smashed into” version at the initial interview were twice as likely to give the incorrect answer. Given the “smashed into” version, the participants were certain that there was broken glass during the traffic accident. How could the same video produce different answers with a change of one