Question

In a study, researchers asked one group of participants to watch a video about two friends in an unpleasant argument. They asked another group of participants to watch the same video, but told participants that it was a video of two friends enjoying a lively discussion. Afterwards, the researchers notice that participants who were told the discussion was an argument were more likely to falsely report that the people in the video were yelling, frowning, and getting angry. This is an example of

the misinformation effect.
source amnesia.
the misattribution effect.
false memory syndrome

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This is an example of the **misinformation effect**. The participants' perceptions and recollections of the video were influenced by the context in which they were presented the information (i.e., being told it was an argument versus a lively discussion), leading them to report distorted memories of the events depicted in the video.

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