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Testing promotes eyewitness accuracy with a warning: Implications for retrieval enhanced suggestibility
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Journal of Memory & Language . Aug2010, Vol. 63 Issue 2, p149-157. 9p. - Publication Year :
- 2010
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Abstract
- Abstract: Numerous studies have demonstrated that repeated retrieval boosts later retention. However, recent research has shown that testing can increase eyewitness susceptibility to misleading post-event information (e.g., ). The present study examines the effects of warning on this counterintuitive finding. In two experiments, subjects either took an initial test or performed a filler task after they viewed a video event. They were then given post-event information before they took a final test. Critically, one group of subjects was warned about potential inaccuracies in the post-event narrative and the other group was not. Without a warning, subjects who received an initial test were more likely to endorse misleading post-event information, replicating the retrieval-enhanced suggestibility (RES) effect. However, this RES effect was eliminated when subjects were warned about the veracity of the narrative. These results are consistent with a retrieval fluency account of RES. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0749596X
- Volume :
- 63
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Memory & Language
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 51929733
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2010.04.004