Question

The sleep list experiment, in which many people misremember the word "sleep" as being part of a list of words, is an example of

Answer 1

It is an example of MISLEADING POST EVENT INFORMATION'S INFLUENCE ON MEMORY. The misinformation effect occurs when an individual's recall of memories becomes less accurate because of post event information. The new information which the individual received after the event works backward to distort the memory of the original event.