False Recognition Research Paper

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Memory is a part of human nature. We encode things in the environment around us, and it is stored in short term memory or long term memory. For the most part, memory is reliable, especially for more recent events. But there are countless studies on what happens when we misremember what we think we see or hear. This is called false recognition. Many speculate whether the false memory occurs within seconds of the initial encoding, or after 20 minutes have gone by (Flegal et al., 2010). Three different experiments were conducted to examine the effects of false recognition, and how it impacts memories.
In the first experiment, performance with auditory study and auditory test was compared with the visual study and visual test in the same group of participants. The second experiment studied modality and test modality in a between-participants design, and the third experiment compared short and long term recognition performance in both the visual and auditory modalities. Experiment 3 showed that whether the distortion of memory is much more prominent in the visual or auditory modality, depending on when the recognition is tested.
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The first compared the effects of the auditory and visual list presentation on truthful memory and false recognition in the short term alternative of the converging associates task (Atkins and Reuter-Lorenz et al., 2008). The second objective determined whether or not input modality had dissociable effects on false memory rates at short versus long delays.
Discernibly, the type of study that was conducted is experimental. Participants were selected, and various visual and auditory tests were performed on them to determine the impact of false