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The Empirical Study For The Inflence Factor Of Imagination Inflation

Posted on:2009-01-22Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:J QianFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360245467284Subject:Applied Psychology
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Imagination inflation paradigm is one of the paradigm for the false memotr study. Imagining a counter - factual event can make subjects more confident than it actually occurres. It is called Imagination Inflation. Imagination expansion is actually a confidence expansion.Imagination inflation is the research that base on the daily life and hanve high applicaton value in the business,legal and educational field. The present study indicate that the main influencing factors for imagination inflation are individual differences,experimental operation and imagine target.However,there still have many controversy .This study uses a classic imagination inflaton Paradigm to further explore the influencing factors for imagination inflation.This study was designed two experiments. The result of the experiment 1 show that image the plausibility information and both of the plausibility andschematicity information can trigger significant imaginaton inflation effect. The result of the experiment 2 show that:1,compared with stressful event,non-stress event have more significant imaginaton inflation effect;2,There is no significant difference in the way of imagine .3,The age differecce exist in the imagination of non-stress event;4,compared with imagine emotions,imagine process have more significant imaginaton inflation effect.
Keywords/Search Tags:false memeory, imagination inflation, types of information, nature of the incident, age, imagination content
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