The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of type of misinformation and
contextual cues on children's event memory in cued recall and free recall situations.
Subjects were 111 6-year-old preschool children. They were assigned to conditions
according to type of misinformation(central, peripheral, control) and contextual
cues(cue+, cue-). They were presented original information(story) and immediately
misinformation were presented. After 2 days, their event memory was measured. The
major results of this study are as follows. Two-way analysis of variance was
performed. First, memory of central information was not different by type of
misinformation and contextual cue in cued recall. Second, memory of peripheral
information of peripheral misinformed group was lower than that of central misinformed
and control group in cued recall. Third, there was significant interaction effect by type
of misinformation and contextual cues in total incorrect memory in cued recall. In
contextual cue+ condition, memory was not different by type of misinformation, but in
contextual cue- condition, memory of peripheral memory of peripheral misinformed group
was lower than that of central misinformed group. Fourth, Induced incorrect response of
peripheral misinformed group was higher than that of central misinformed group in cued
recall. Fifth, main effect of contextual cue was signigicant in total correct memory in
free recall only. Finally, discussion on the main results of this study was described.