We all know that memory can be a very confusing topic to understand. Nevertheless, it is a very interesting topic. In certain studies that will be discussed further ahead, they talk about how memories are always disrupted when it comes to thinking or remembering certain things. These studies have been tested over many years but, the results may not always be certain. My group and I plan to reenter the topic of memory to find out how false memories come to be. It is important that we be able to confirm the theory of how remembering words can bring up false memory words in order for it to be valid. The first test ever made was called “Eyewitness Testimony: The Influence of the wording of a Question.” The purpose of this experiment was to see
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In the study called, “Memories of things Unseen,” investigators succeeded in getting people to believe such things as, getting lost in a mall, be hospitalized overnight, or an accident happening in a wedding happened to them as a child. There is sample evidence here that says people can be led to believe that they experienced things that never happened due to changing sensory details and being guided in an imagination technique (Loftus, 2004). In another study called, “Creating bizarre false memories through imagination,” their research was on the power of imagination and how it can negatively affect memory. They has three different sessions. The first session had to perform or image certain actions. The second session participants had to imagine performing various actions. In the third session which took place two weeks later, they were tested on their memory for the original actions. The number of imaginings increased in sessions 2. It was demonstrated that bizarre actions may lose the items distinctiveness (Thomas and Loftus, 2002). This study can also relate to “Memory distortion in people reporting abduction by aliens.” In this study people who reported having recovered memories of traumatic events that are unlikely to have occurred were being examined. It was stated that exposure to trauma can result in amnesia for memoires that would be …show more content…
The ones who reported having memories of past lives showed higher false recall and recognition rates in the DRM paradigm and scored higher on measures of magical ideation (Meyersburg, Bogdan, Gallo, and McNally, 2009). In this next study, “False memory of food can lead to food avoidance,” it questioned how false feedback about their childhood could change the confidence level on whether they liked a food or not. People who were told that they had gotten sick from eating a dill pickle were way more confident that as a child they did believe they felt sick after eating it than those who were not given false feedback on the pickles. The results indicated that the false feedback on the pickles increased the people’s belief that that experience occurred, however it did not change the way they felt about them as adults (Bernstein, Laney, Morris, and Loftus,
In the study called, “Memories of things Unseen,” investigators succeeded in getting people to believe such things as, getting lost in a mall, be hospitalized overnight, or an accident happening in a wedding happened to them as a child. There is sample evidence here that says people can be led to believe that they experienced things that never happened due to changing sensory details and being guided in an imagination technique (Loftus, 2004). In another study called, “Creating bizarre false memories through imagination,” their research was on the power of imagination and how it can negatively affect memory. They has three different sessions. The first session had to perform or image certain actions. The second session participants had to imagine performing various actions. In the third session which took place two weeks later, they were tested on their memory for the original actions. The number of imaginings increased in sessions 2. It was demonstrated that bizarre actions may lose the items distinctiveness (Thomas and Loftus, 2002). This study can also relate to “Memory distortion in people reporting abduction by aliens.” In this study people who reported having recovered memories of traumatic events that are unlikely to have occurred were being examined. It was stated that exposure to trauma can result in amnesia for memoires that would be …show more content…
The ones who reported having memories of past lives showed higher false recall and recognition rates in the DRM paradigm and scored higher on measures of magical ideation (Meyersburg, Bogdan, Gallo, and McNally, 2009). In this next study, “False memory of food can lead to food avoidance,” it questioned how false feedback about their childhood could change the confidence level on whether they liked a food or not. People who were told that they had gotten sick from eating a dill pickle were way more confident that as a child they did believe they felt sick after eating it than those who were not given false feedback on the pickles. The results indicated that the false feedback on the pickles increased the people’s belief that that experience occurred, however it did not change the way they felt about them as adults (Bernstein, Laney, Morris, and Loftus,