While waiting to cross the street, you witness a man ignoring the red signal and causing an accident. Then, the man who caused t
he accident gets out of his car to talk to you. He tells you that the signal was yellow when he tried crossing the street. Later, you tell the police that you remember the signal being yellow, not red, when the man tried crossing the intersection. This scenario illustrates: the priming effect. the confirmation bias. belief perseverance. the misinformation effect.
The misinformation effect is a psychological term that describes the occurrence of a situation in which an individual's recollection of episodic memories is affected by the subsequent incident information. This implies that the subsequent inflation affects or alters the memory of the actual event.
Hence, in this situation, the correct answer is "MISINFORMATION EFFECT."
