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Chapter 10: Long-Term Memory III: Retrieval and Forgetting
 * Connections:**

__The Power of Suggestion: Effects of Subsequently Presented Information__: >
 * In Chapter 10, Ormrod notes, that a person's memory can be influenced by the information presented after they learned whatever they are trying to retrieve (2008). These ideas are especially important in considering eye-witness testimonies.
 * As evident in the results of the first study, it is important that police investigators are aware that their questioning, as well as presentation of PEI can "add" details to an account.
 * This can be connected to the **misinformation effect**, which says that a person's memory of a particular event can be distorted when they receive inaccurate information about that event (2008).
 * As connected to the research people used their misinformation within their original knowledge of the event to reconstruct what happened. You can see this by what participants have "added" to the event when comparing the "Control Add" and "Add" groups within the experiment. Those presented with the PEI were more likely to reconstruct what they had actually seen.
 * The power of suggestion was also successful in the second study, in which 15% of people in the group who had not originally been shown the critical scene, but instead were asked to imagine it, reported having seen the critical scene. Also, 41% of that group falsely recognized the scene in the questionaire.
 * The participants were retrieving **false memories** about the original video that they had seen, after the drunk driving incident idea was activated during the imagination inflation task.

__Forgetting__:
 * Chapter 10 of Ormrod also helps us understand the role of **interference** in simply forgetting what actually happened. Interference was also previously described as proactive and retroactive inhibition. When relating this to the research cases at hand we are specifically talking about **retroactive inhibition**, where learning a second set of information can diminish your ability to remember the first set of information.
 * This is connected to the the first study, as those that were presented with the PEI storybook were more likely to identify inaccurate accounts of the original presentation.
 * In the second study, the researchers attempted with the Omit group to diminish the retrieval of the critical scene by asking them to recall all scenes except the critical scene and then testing them on their memory. This attempt was not largely successful, as 83% successfully remembered the critical scene.