Lanely et al
Asparagus and you
Malleability of human brain
• Misinformation effect - The misinformation
effect occurs when a person's recall of
episodic memories becomes less accurate
because of post-event information
• Suggestibility – the act of feeding
misinformation
Why is this interesting?
• How can we humans use / abuse / confuse
this?
• Hints:
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Court of law
Convincing a girlfriend
Calming someone
Aggravating someone
• Court of law – courts use eye witnesses
testimonies in courts and it counts towards
evidence. If someone mentions something to
a jury, even if the judge recalls what was said,
they still heard or remember it
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCcq2Bkx
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• Truthfully eyewitness testimony is basically
garbage
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChgPk2O
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• Convincing a girlfriend – often times we
gaslight our partners to make them believe
certain things and act certain ways
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3tJvrr2OY
• Calming someone
• Aggravating someone
• https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YqOEpCGlyI
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• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDYKslnO
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Some acronyms to remember
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FHI – food history inventory
RQ – restaurant questionnaire
FPQ - Food preferences questionnaire
FCQ – Food costs questionnaire
MBQ - Memory or belief questionnaire
• Memory vs belief
• What is the difference
• Memory – can recall or envision specific details about
something
• ex) you remember eating dumplings for breakfast
• Belief – something you know but don’t necessarily have
specific memories of it
• Ex) you know that this morning wasn’t the first time you
ate a dumpling, but you know that the first dumpling you
ate was a long time ago
• The difference between these two will be important later