Anderson and Green (2001) were interested in repression that…

Anderson and Green (2001) were interested in repression that could be simulated in the laboratory and modeled on retrieval active suppression. They trained participants on simple word pairs. When the participants had mastered a list of forty word pairs (i.e., improved to the point where they could recall all the target words when given the cue word), they were given what Anderson and Green called a “think/no think” procedure. They found that:

McCloskey and Zaragoza presented two choices, an object seen…

McCloskey and Zaragoza presented two choices, an object seen in the original event (i.e., a Coke can) and the object suggested in the misinformation (i.e., a Budweiser can). In the second condition, McCloskey and Zaragoza presented the object from the original event (i.e., the Coke can) with a distractor that was not part of the misinformation (i.e., a 7-Up can). They found that: