slimy
creepy
tiny
Harvard's Mahzarin Banaji is one of three researchers who developed the Implicit Association Test.
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crawl
spider
fly
fright
bite
poison
ants
bug
web
The Deese-Roediger-McDermott Test (Part 2)
Go through the words in this list, without referring back to the other list. Check all of the words that you recall as being in the previous list. The explanation of the test is below.
bite
feelers
bed
fly
pillow
poison
sleep
bug
dream
insect
ants
web
slimy
night
blanket
Explanation: Harvard psychologist Mahzarin Banaji offers this test in lectures to show how easily a false memory can be created. Most people remember seeing the word "insect" in the first list. The mistake happens because the words in the first box were associated with insects: Unlike a machine, human memory is prone to error, because of reasonable-but incorrect-assumptions. "Mind bugs operate without us being concious of them," Banaji says.
