Memories may seem unchangeable and concrete. In recent years, there has been an over-flux of research done on false memories. Humans, as imaginative as we are, frequently recall past experiences. Recent studies have established that false memories can be consequential and emotional, that they can last for long periods of time, and that they are not merely the product of demand characteristics or the recovery of extant but hidden memories. The misinformation effect is misleading information that is presented after a person witnesses an event and the changes in how the person describes the event later. The misinformation effect shows not only false memories can be created by suggestion but also provides an example of how different researchers
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The need to understand the memory processes has been in the scope of discovering the potential of the brain and also in the scope of developing therapies to heal memory problems. Numerous theories therefore have been developed to explain various memory processes situations. For example, there is a theory in the scope of false memories that works to situations where individuals can possess definite memories with regard to particular event that did not occur to them in the real sense (Schooler, 1998). The above is to mean that individuals can have false memories in the scope of thinking or assuming that they have been in certain situations or places. In scientific terms, the theory is viewed to be the result of errors of commission as opposed to the errors of omission. Some of the earliest studies or tests to uncover the phenomenon of false memories were conducted by the famous psychologist, …show more content…
With the above consideration, it is important to identify how the false memory can be of importance to the research field of psychology. Perhaps the person who added the relevance of the false memory concept in psychology was Alfred Binet (Schacter, Norman & Koutstaal, 1997). Binet had a huge inters in the suggestive types of questions in addition to the repeated recall of sample activities such as narrative text which was in line with modern studies of false memory. The utilization of the suggestive interviewing and interrogation could help in the discovery of error in memory for witnesses in the legal arena in most cases, the witnesses often suffer from fake memory concepts and need refreshments in order to remember if they were at certain place, or they saw or experienced a certain activity. To achieve the above, the victims would have to undergo a short test of suggestive interviewing and interrogation. This paper proposes the development of one such test in the scope of suggestive interviewing and interrogation to legal witnesses in order to measure or illustrate the concept of the ability recall
The need to understand the memory processes has been in the scope of discovering the potential of the brain and also in the scope of developing therapies to heal memory problems. Numerous theories therefore have been developed to explain various memory processes situations. For example, there is a theory in the scope of false memories that works to situations where individuals can possess definite memories with regard to particular event that did not occur to them in the real sense (Schooler, 1998). The above is to mean that individuals can have false memories in the scope of thinking or assuming that they have been in certain situations or places. In scientific terms, the theory is viewed to be the result of errors of commission as opposed to the errors of omission. Some of the earliest studies or tests to uncover the phenomenon of false memories were conducted by the famous psychologist, …show more content…
With the above consideration, it is important to identify how the false memory can be of importance to the research field of psychology. Perhaps the person who added the relevance of the false memory concept in psychology was Alfred Binet (Schacter, Norman & Koutstaal, 1997). Binet had a huge inters in the suggestive types of questions in addition to the repeated recall of sample activities such as narrative text which was in line with modern studies of false memory. The utilization of the suggestive interviewing and interrogation could help in the discovery of error in memory for witnesses in the legal arena in most cases, the witnesses often suffer from fake memory concepts and need refreshments in order to remember if they were at certain place, or they saw or experienced a certain activity. To achieve the above, the victims would have to undergo a short test of suggestive interviewing and interrogation. This paper proposes the development of one such test in the scope of suggestive interviewing and interrogation to legal witnesses in order to measure or illustrate the concept of the ability recall