Amnesia

Studies on the formation of false memories have shown that through retroactive interference, you can alter an individual’s memory by giving them false information. Retroactive interference happens when there is an occurrence after an experience that affects the way you remember that experience. Consequently, this means that if an individual is given false information about a memory, it may mislead them to believe that they have experienced a certain event or occasion when in fact, they have not.…

Memory is the mental process of acquiring, retaining and then retrieving information and mental storage system that enables these processes. Misinformation effect refers to memory for false information or alteration of facts that leads to memory distortion. It occurs when episodic memory information is distorted or accuracy decreases because of post-event information occurring after the main event. Elizabeth Loftus started research in this field in 1974 where she found that wording of questions…

Flashbulb memory is a detailed and vivid memory of a specific event, in most cases the event is extremely important. This type of memory allows us the remember specific events in close to full detail this causes people to feel confident when they recall a specific event. The biggest flaw with flasbulb memory is that because people tend to feel overconfident about the event they add a false detail withought realizing it this results in the flashbulb memory becoming a false memory, a memory that…

1. Differentiate between repressed memories, recovered memories, and false memories. What does the research support? Repressed memories are memories that are kept hidden from yourself. Recovered memories are memories that were repressed but recovered during hypnosis or psychotherapy. False memories are memories that are distorted or imagined. There is no way to differentiate between the recovered memory to be true or false. However, some cases use a recovered memory to convict sexual abusers…

The Case Against Memory Memories are an indicator of what individuals believe to be the truth. While some individuals may believe that an event occurred in early childhood, there are often parents that will not recall the event at all. It’s necessary, then, to establish if there are pieces of physical evidence that can be traced back to the memory in question. Without other evidence, memories become a case of “he said, she said,” which is not an ideal way of conducting investigations, let alone…

Some of the ethical concerns in implanting false memories is that it affects the way in which a person might think about a certain ominous circumstance that occurred on his/her life. In some dangerous situations in which a tragedy might had happen, it could cause witnesses to think about something they never saw during the accident. For example, on ''Loftus's The Formation of False Memories'', says that on a psychological experiment, 24 subjects were asked to remember 72 true events, but the…

The Mandela Effect all started with the discovery of a large number of people sharing collective false memories of past events. A blogger, Fiona Broome, used this term to describe a false memory about Nelson Mandela. Thousands of people claim they remember mourning Nelson Mandela’s death and seeing his funeral on TV. Mandela allegedly died in prison during the 1980s; in reality, he died on December 5, 2013, due to respiratory tract infection. The Mandela Effect causes our minds to latch onto…

Despite this, long term memory from before the amnesia-causing event remains the same. Anterograde amnesia comes from a failure in memory encoding and storage, with new information unable to enter the long term memory. Lucy’s short term memory has been affected, although new procedural memories (the learnings of skills and habits)…

Mistaken behavior is errors in judgement and actions made in the process of learning life skills. Many times we confuse mistaken behavior with misbehavior but it’s quite different. According to Sarah Smith misbehavior implies that it was intentionally, while mistaken behavior implies that it was unintentional. It is easy to say a child is misbehaving by his wrongdoing but we don't think about the cause of his actions. Sometimes children make mistakes like we do but, it is important that we take…

Confessions are one of the most damning types of evidence in criminal trials. While convictions cannot be based on confessions alone, they are still relied on in litigation (Schwartzbach, 2016). Not all confessions are true, however, even if a person remembers committing the crime. Julia Shaw and Stephen Porter published a study in 2015 that examined the general hypothesis: It is possible to create a false memory of committing a crime. They used a sample of 60 undergraduate students to test the…