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The data analyzed supports the hypothesis that the related distractor words would be more likely be reported than the unrelated distractor words. This most likely occurred due to the notion that the idea of many of the words presented are related to the distractor, and most likely the participant thought about the distractor item as the words were being shown. At test, the participant has a memory of thinking about the word, but thought this was because it was presented rather than realizing it had was just a thought about the word. The of an association between similar meaning words can create a falsified schema, in which people can create false memories. (Goldstein, 2015, p. 225) Which resulted in this study of participants having false memories
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