PSYC 213 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Episodic Memory, Implicit Memory, Explicit Memory
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Participants rate events that could happen in a person"s childhood (e. g. , getting stuck in tree) happened to them. They imagine some of those events did not happen to them. Given instructions focus on the details of this imagined event as if it were a memory. Participants re-rate the same list of childhood events for whether they happened to them or not. The events participants imagined are more likely to be falsely re- rated as having occurred. Participants completed a gambling task with a partner (a confederate) Later, the experiments falsely told the participants the partner cheated. Some participants were shown false footage of the cheating incident. When the participants were asked to sign a statement saying they witnessed the partner cheating, 20% of those shown false footage signed were willing to sign the statement. "fabricated evidence can induce individuals to accuse another. "fabricated evidence can induce individuals to accuse another person of doing something they never did"