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    Memory is one of the most critical parts of cognition. It is important because it is involved in almost all aspects of cognition, including problem solving, decision making, attention and perception. Because of this importance, people rely on their memory to make important decisions. The value of a person's memory in this society is so high that it is used as evidence to either save their life or kill them in murder trials. But as many cognitive psychologists know, human memory can cause many errors. One of these errors is false memory which involves either remembering events that never happened or remembering events differently than the actual event. This discovery of false memories has aroused great interest among psychologists and the general public and much research has been carried out in order to learn more about false memories. The constructivist approach to memory, whereby the memory is constructed by the person based on what actually happened in addition to their other knowledge, experiences, and expectations, supports the idea of ​​false memory. Much like the constructive approach to memory, false memory can be created by the person's knowledge, common biases, and suggestions. The present study was carried out to demonstrate a methodology that tricks people into creating and recalling false memories. The present study is based on Deese's experiment in 1959 as well as Roediger and McDermott's experiment in 1995. Participants will be visually presented with a sequence of words, and then they will be asked to classify a set of words as being in the sequence or not. the sequence. Our hypothesis is that people will create false memories and recall distractor words related to the sequence of words presented meaningfully in middle of paper......re I think if participants are not aware of it , the rate of false callbacks will increase. And if there are more words presented, I suspect that will increase the false recall rate. We can involve this discovery of false memories in many ways in our lives. We all need to understand that our memory cannot be trusted 100% and that we should not rely solely on our memory when it comes to making critical decisions. Much like the murder trial example used previously, when dealing with eyewitness testimony, the judge must take into account possible false memories when making final decisions and try to obtain objective evidence as well as the memory of the witness. Works Cited Roediger, HL III and McDermott, KB (1995). Creating false memories: memorizing words not presented in lists. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 21, 803-814