Introduction Several studies demonstrate that people can create false memories about events they witnessed if they are deliberately given wrong information regarding the events (Roediger & McDermott, 1995; Hyman Jr & Pentland, 1996; Hyman & Billings Jr, 1998; Loftus, 2005). It has been demonstrated that informing people that they would be given misleading information often reduces the chances of creating false memories. DRM false memories occur when people give wrong words that are not presented in a list used in false memory assessments (Blair, Lenton & Hastie, 2002; Zhu, Chen, Loftus, Lin & Dong, 2013). For example, a list of bed, rest, and pillow is related to sleep. When the list is given to some people, they might recall the critical word (sleep) yet it would not be presented in the list. Hyman, Husband and Billings (1995) investigated whether students would be influenced to create false childhood memories by giving them misleading information. They hypothesised that college students could develop false memories about childhood events if they could be provided with misleading information (Hyman et al., 1995). The study used personal interviews to collect data from the participating students. Results showed that some students created false memories in both recalling and false memory experiments. It was demonstrated that ages of the participants were not essential in determining results in experimenter-created false event. In addition, it was found that the students who had discussed childhood events in detail at the beginning of the interviews were more likely to create false memories than those who had not discussed (Hyman et al., 1995). Hyman and Billings Jr (1998) investigated whether individual variations impacted students in creating false childhood memories. Students were interviewed to assess whether they would give the same information given by their parents. They were requested to recall childhood events in two days which were not consecutive (Hyman & Billings Jr, 1998). The study found that about 25% of the participants created false childhood memories. Individual abilities in monitoring were essential in defining the differences in creating false memories among participants (Hyman & Billings Jr, 1998). The findings are crucial in the current study because it is known that creation of childhood false memories is based on individual monitoring abilities. Roediger and McDermott (1995) investigated the patterns of remembering false events and recalling events that never happened. The study used a word list related to sleep. Two experiments were used to study the rates of false recall and false recognition. It was found that 40% of the study participants had false recall while 55% of the participants demonstrated false recognition (Roediger & McDermott, 1995). Hyman Jr and Pentland (1996) conducted an investigation to determine whether mental imagery would increase the probability of creating false memories and recalling past unremembered true events. The study participants were requested to recall events in comparison with what their parents had given researchers (Hyman Jr & Pentland, 1996). They were also required to recall a false event created through experiments. The study participants were required to form mental image