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PSYC1020 - The effects of Misinformation on the Reliability of Human Memory
NEUR1020 - The Brain and Behavioural Sciences
7 Pages • Essays / Projects • Year: Pre-2021 • Previously uploaded under: PSYC1020 - Introduction to Psychology: Minds, Brains and Behaviour
The misinformation effect refers to error in remembering events that occurred in the past by people who were presented with false or mistaken data about an event ( Morgan III, Southwick, Steffian, Hazlett & Loftus, 2013). It has been reported that human memory is not perfect ( Zhou et al,. 2015). Extensive research has been conducted by researchers to assess the impact of the misinformation effect and its impact on human memory. This essay will be looking at research conducted by Morgan et al., (2013) and Winkelspecht and Mowrer (1999) to aid in the argument that human memory for the details of past events is not reliably accurate as it can be influenced by the misinformation effect. Both studies mentioned above produced results the proved that memory can be modified by exposure to misinformation. Morgan et al.’s (2013) study investigated whether exposure to misinformation would alter the memory of a recently experienced, personal and highly stressful event. The results indicated that misinformation leads to less accurate human memory. Winkelspecht and Mowrer’s (1999) study attempted to prevent distortion in memory due to inaccurate post-event
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