False memory is a very serious problem that everybody will definitely experience in life at least once. So what is false memory exactly it “…is a fabricated or distorted recollection of an event that did not actually happen.”(Cherry, 2014) These memories can be influenced through a combination of things including misinformation and misunderstanding of the specific information. Existing memories can sometimes overlap and distort the formation of a relatively new memory. Which causes the memory to be either mostly false or entirely false. Some people might say that there’s no way they could have a false memory but our memory is not as dependable as we think it is. Misinformation which is one of the leading causes for false memories was actually
