Now You See It; Now You Don't: Inhibiting Recall and Recognition of Scenes

I found this article to be confusing. The topic was confusing to me and the way the studies were explained seemed to make it even more difficult for me to understand. The overall flow of the article was hard for me to follow. From what I did understand, postevent misleading information can alter someone’s memories by either adding to it or by taking away scenes. I found it interesting to think about someone’s memory being altered so they believe events occurred that hadn’t ever.
The article described how postevent information may cause someone to have inhibitions. A study that stuck out to me was by Shaw et al. This study conducted an experiment that demonstrated the posteven information. The participants were shown a scene which took place in a bedroom where someone’s wallet had been stolen and 8 university sweatshirts had been shown. Later the participants were asked to recall the sweatshirts shown…”did you see a UNI sweatshirt?”, “did you see a Princeton university sweatshirt?”, etc. The participants were later asked to name any universities sweatshirt logos they could think of. They found that the participants were much more likely to mention the universities which were previously asked about and less likely to mention a university they had not been questioned about. The study done by Wright et al was similar except participants were shown pictures of a wallet being stolen and were shown one of two scenarios. In one of the scenarios, the criminal was accompanied by an accomplice, and in the other, there was no accomplice. Later participants were told to talk with someone who viewed the opposite scene and due to this many participants reported either seeing the accomplice (when indeed they did not) or vice versa. These studies showed that postevent information can cause a person hold back information or to add information they had not actually seen.
I’m still confused on this topic, but hopefully after the presentation I will understand it more.