HOW SCIENCE WORKS PRACTICAL ACTIVITY
Can misleading information post event distort recall?
1. Find a photograph of a busy scene or a short video clip
2. Find 10 participants willing to take part in your experiment
3. Divide your 10 participants into 2 groups of 5
4. Compile a set of 5 questions about the scene and ask both
groups to view the scene. Make all the questions the same
apart from for one group put a deliberately misleading
question in about something that is not in the scene
5. After a time delay (up to a day) return and ask all the people
more questions about the picture/scene
6. Write up your study according to the guidelines given to you.
HOW SCIENCE WORKS PRACTICAL ACTIVITY
Can misleading information post event distort recall?
7. Find a photograph of a busy scene or a short video clip
8. Find 10 participants willing to take part in your experiment
9. Divide your 10 participants into 2 groups of 5
10.Compile a set of 5 questions about the scene and ask both
groups to view the scene. Make all the questions the same
apart from for one group put a deliberately misleading
question in about something that is not in the scene
11.After a time delay (up to a day) return and ask all the people
more questions about the picture/scene
12.Write up your study according to the guidelines given to you.