Presentation Type
Poster Presentation
Mentor/Supervising Professor Name
Garcia, Melissa
Abstract (Description of Research)
The proposed study will examine whether distracting, negatively-valenced auditory stimuli will replicate the eyewitness phenomenon. A group of 36 undergraduate students from Southern Adventist University (SAU) will be gathered using stratified sampling methods. To represent SAU’s undergraduate population, nine students from each year will be selected and randomly assigned to the control or intervention groups. Depending on their assignment, the participants will watch a video with no auditory stimulus or watch a video with negatively-valenced charged auditory stimuli. After the video, the participants will be given an identification assessment to measure memory.
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The Eyewitness Phenomenon: How Does Emotion Affect Memory?*
The proposed study will examine whether distracting, negatively-valenced auditory stimuli will replicate the eyewitness phenomenon. A group of 36 undergraduate students from Southern Adventist University (SAU) will be gathered using stratified sampling methods. To represent SAU’s undergraduate population, nine students from each year will be selected and randomly assigned to the control or intervention groups. Depending on their assignment, the participants will watch a video with no auditory stimulus or watch a video with negatively-valenced charged auditory stimuli. After the video, the participants will be given an identification assessment to measure memory.