Question

Abigail and alisa are at the amusement park together, and alisa gets very scared of the enormous roller coaster. several weeks later, abigail asks her, "remember how much fun we had on the roller coaster?" alisa nods and agrees that the roller coaster was great and does not recall being afraid. this is an example of the _____ effect.

Answer 1

The correct answer is the misinformation effect.

The misinformation effect refers to the phenomenon where long-term memories become inaccurate when misleading information is incorporated to a person's memory of an event, after the event has occurred. In this instance, Alisa was afraid of the roller coaster, however her memory of this was rendered inaccurate after her friend, Abigail, several weeks later, asked her "remember how much fun we had on the roller coaster?". This demonstrates the misinformation effect.