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The average as approximately twenty two years of age, and this group consisted of nineteen men. A small financial compensation about was given to the participants who were tested. Each individual was tested in their own room at the university for approximately thirty minutes. This experiment used a list of words that are semantically related to each other. These words were adopted by a paradigm known as Deese-Roediger-McDermott which was known to induce false memories in children and adults reliably. Each participant was given six lists of ten words each from the DRM list. There were three groups that the participants were randomly selected into, Survival, Moving, and Pleasantness. Each group had a scenario that the participant had to rate the word at the moment given to them on a computer screen with relevance or pleasantness to the scenario. The participants were to rate the words given to them on a score card while the words were presented to them in five second intervals. Practice words were given to make sure the participants understood the instructions. After rating the words, the participants had to perform a distracter, which was Tetris, for two minutes. After the distracter, for ten minutes, the participants were surprised with the task of having to recall the words previously shown to them by writing them
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The young group of children consisted of ninety nine students from an elementary school which averaged approximately eight years of age. The older group of children also from an elementary school consisted of only seventy one students with an average age of eleven. The children were randomly assigned to the three groups of Survival, Moving, and Pleasantness. The same list of DRM words were used, but these words were displayed for six seconds. The children had to rate the words just as the adults did, but on a smiley face scale. The smaller the smiley, the less relevant, the larger the smiley, the more relevant the word is. The children played Tetris for two minutes as a distracter and were asked to list all of the words they could remember
The young group of children consisted of ninety nine students from an elementary school which averaged approximately eight years of age. The older group of children also from an elementary school consisted of only seventy one students with an average age of eleven. The children were randomly assigned to the three groups of Survival, Moving, and Pleasantness. The same list of DRM words were used, but these words were displayed for six seconds. The children had to rate the words just as the adults did, but on a smiley face scale. The smaller the smiley, the less relevant, the larger the smiley, the more relevant the word is. The children played Tetris for two minutes as a distracter and were asked to list all of the words they could remember