The Relationship Between Memory and Questioning Over the years, researchers have investigated how the misinterpretation of a question can affect an individual's memory. A number of studies were conducted, which focused on the impact question wording, design, suggestibility, and prior experiences have had on a person's ability to recall information. This topic is important to scientific scholars because the results could determine how they phrase their questions for future studies. Perhaps, the reason many studies …showed first 75 words of 861 total…

…showed last 75 words of 861 total…how a question is worded. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 73, 472-480. Winkielman, P., Schwarz, N., & Knäuper, B. (1998). Looking back at anger: Reference periods change the interpretation of emotion frequency questions. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 75, 719-728. Yaniv, I., Meyer, D. E., & Davidson, N. S. (1995). Dynamic memory processes in retrieving answers to questions: Recall failures, judgments of knowing, and acquisition of information. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 21, 1509-1521.