Experiment
The False Memory Test
This is a real, well-documented psychology experiment, the Deese–Roediger–McDermott (DRM) paradigm, described in the Reliability of Memory primer and in the essay When Memory Lies. Take it before reading either, it works best if you don't know the trick going in. There are several versions of the word list; you'll get one at random, so it's worth trying more than once.
You're about to see a list of words, one at a time. Just read each one. Afterward, you'll take a short memory test.
Word 1 of 15
That's the full list. Now for the memory test.
For each word below, did it appear in the list you just read?
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