There has been a recent rise in interest in the theory of false memory creation. The reason
        for this sudden urge of interests spun from psychology patients recalling unrecognized acts of abuse
        (sexual, physical, and emotional) whether it be "repressed" childhood trauma or abuse currently
        happening to them that they "block out".

        In light of all of these accusations, investigators started to experiment with memory recall tasks to
        prove whether there is such a thing as false memory. One such experiment was conducted by Roediger
        and McDermott (1995). They asked participants to listen to a series of words played on a tape player and,
        depending on whether it was a tone or knock, to recall the list or to solve math problems. After the recall task,
        participants were given a recognition test in which they were asked to make a judgment on either old-new
        and know-remember words. The results indicated that in the recall task, subjects recalled the critical
        nonpresented word on 55% of the lists. The results also indicated that the act of recall helped the subjects
        recognize more words.

        The current experiment tested for the effect of recall and recognition of false memories.   The present
        experiment attempted to replicate the Roediger and McDermott experiment by expanding on the word
        representation by using a Visual Basics computer program. Rather than listening to a word, the participants
        were asked to watch words individually flash on a computer screen. All other components of the experiment
        were the same.

        The investigators hypothesized that the participants would recall the critical nonpresented words of the lists.
        The investigators also hypothesized that the participants would judge the studied words as "New or Old"
        depending on whether or not the lists were followed by the recall test or the math problem solving test.