In 1995, Henry Roediger and Kathleen McDermott wanted to look at false recall and false recognition. Also, Roediger and McDermott wanted to know if they could get the same or similar results of Deese’s experiment, which he conducted in 1959 (Deese, 1959 as cited in Roediger & McDermott, 1995). So, Roediger and McDermott conducted two experiments that essentially replicated Deese’s study (Deese, 1959 as cited in Roediger & McDermott, 1995). In their first experiment, Roediger and McDermott used a series of lists from Deese’s experiment that produced increased levels of false recall. Participants were instructed to listen and recall the words on the lists. Then the participants received a recognition test over the items; the recognition test
