McCloskey & Zaragoza (1985)

McCloskey & Zaragoza (1985)

1. Proving that L&P results were due to response bias & not change in memory

2. slide-recognition procedure

   • 4 critical slides
     • 3 versions,
       • Man picked up hammer/wrench/screwdriver

3. undergrads presented with 79 colour slides

   • maintenance man enters office, repairs chair, find & steal 20$ & calculator

4. After slides partis read narrative of incident, some had misleading info

5. New forced choice test

6. Look at pic ->

7. Misleading info had no effect original memory

8. group 2 could have forgotten & filled in gap

9. Sample not representative

10. Still forced choice

11. Low ecological validity etc.

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