Date of Award
8-16-2022
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Psychological Science, MS
First Advisor
Karen Yanowitz
Committee Members
Jessica Curtis; Kristin Biondolillo
Call Number
LD 251 .A566t 2022 P37
Abstract
Memories aren’t always accurate and can actually be very malleable. Research that has investigated false memories have identified schemas and misinformation as two influences for this malleability. While both influences are established, they have always been kept separate until recent years. The present study sought to investigate the role that schematic knowledge has on the misinformation effect for generating false memories. Participants entered three phases and took 10-minute distractor tasks in-between each phase. The first phase consisted of reading a narrative for an event of stalking. The second phase introduced misinformation to the participants by having them read a second narrative of stalking. In the third phase, participants took a cued-recall test and were asked to answer based on the first narrative that they read. Results showed that schema-consistent misinformation led to higher rates of false memories, but only for those who read the original schema-consistent narrative
Rights Management
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Recommended Citation
Parker, Adam Jonathan, "The Influence of Schemas in Misinformation on False Memories" (2022). Student Theses and Dissertations. 247.
https://arch.astate.edu/all-etd/247
