Graduation Term
2014
Degree Name
Master of Science (MS)
Department
Department of Psychology
Committee Chair
Steve Croker
Abstract
People often encounter conflicting information on a wide array of topics. How they evaluate this information in relation to their current beliefs, and the effects of other influences, such as the weight given to superficial aspects of the information (e.g. pictures, anecdotes, or jargon that are at most minimally related to an author's argument), has been of interest to researchers for many years. One component of their processing
and evaluation of this information is their memory for the information. This study set out to examine the following questions: (1) Is belief-congruent in
formation remembered better or worse than belief incongruent information? (2) Does the addition of superficial scientific information to belief-congruent or belief-incongruent information influence how well the newly presented information is remembered? (3) Does repeated testing have an effect on memory for the information? (4) Do any of these factors elicit a greater number of memory intrusions in a free recall task?
Access Type
Thesis-Open Access
Recommended Citation
Nuccio, Daniel Adam, "Influence of Seductive Details, Belief-Congruence, and Repeated Testing on Memory for Controversial Information" (2014). Theses and Dissertations. 251.
https://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/etd/251
DOI
http://doi.org/10.30707/ETD2014.Nuccio.D