Purpose of Research The purpose of the experiment conducted by Otagaar et. al (2009) was to discover if children could create false memories from bizarre, inaccurate information. They were intrigued if children could have the ability to form false memories as adults could do after reading cases that contained children recalling absurd events. Otagaar et. al (2009) wanted to find out of younger children were prone to influence of such false situations that they could develop fictitious memories.
Hypothesis
Otagaar et. al (2009) hypothesized that both situations, either sounding credible or completely fictional, have the same effect on the formation of false memories. As well as hypothesizing that younger children have a strong probability …show more content…
al (2009) used in the experiment was a real narrative and a false narrative which contained two made up situations. For the true narrative, the authors had gathered information from every child’s parents. Otagaar et. al (2009) gathered facts about the first day of school for all the children when they were four years old. The false narrative condition contained two situations. One was a quite believable situation which featured the child choking on a piece of candy and having almost died. And the second situation was completely ludicrous and obviously fictional--it involved that the child being abducted by aliens. The last of the materials that the authors created was newspaper articles. The newspaper articles were used in the additional information condition. The articles were used to enforce that the situations actually happened to the children. It contained fallacious accounts of either the candy, alien, or the first day of school …show more content…
al (2009) conducted two interviews for the experiment. They divided the age ranges into two groups and assigned them to a condition. Some children were placed in the condition containing the two situations or the first day of school event. The experimenter would discuss with the children about their memories specifically their memories at age four. They were to recall their memories to the experimenter (fix later). If the children were in the prevalence information condition, the experimenter would use the articles by reading them to the child to convince that this certain event did happen to them. They used several other retrieval methods if the child had a hard time trying to remember details about the event. The interview would end if the child would not be able to form any recollection of the memory based on the received information. The second interview consisted of the same procedure, except the children were told by the end of the experiment what the actual purpose
Hypothesis
Otagaar et. al (2009) hypothesized that both situations, either sounding credible or completely fictional, have the same effect on the formation of false memories. As well as hypothesizing that younger children have a strong probability …show more content…
al (2009) used in the experiment was a real narrative and a false narrative which contained two made up situations. For the true narrative, the authors had gathered information from every child’s parents. Otagaar et. al (2009) gathered facts about the first day of school for all the children when they were four years old. The false narrative condition contained two situations. One was a quite believable situation which featured the child choking on a piece of candy and having almost died. And the second situation was completely ludicrous and obviously fictional--it involved that the child being abducted by aliens. The last of the materials that the authors created was newspaper articles. The newspaper articles were used in the additional information condition. The articles were used to enforce that the situations actually happened to the children. It contained fallacious accounts of either the candy, alien, or the first day of school …show more content…
al (2009) conducted two interviews for the experiment. They divided the age ranges into two groups and assigned them to a condition. Some children were placed in the condition containing the two situations or the first day of school event. The experimenter would discuss with the children about their memories specifically their memories at age four. They were to recall their memories to the experimenter (fix later). If the children were in the prevalence information condition, the experimenter would use the articles by reading them to the child to convince that this certain event did happen to them. They used several other retrieval methods if the child had a hard time trying to remember details about the event. The interview would end if the child would not be able to form any recollection of the memory based on the received information. The second interview consisted of the same procedure, except the children were told by the end of the experiment what the actual purpose