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    False memory syndrome is a psychological phenomenon that can cause a high impact on someone's life. They are recollections of fabricated events that have not actually occured in reality. What this paper aims to address are the various reasons why false memories occur, how easily memories are manipulated, and how this affects individuals regarding the criminal justice system. Changes to protocols regarding eyewitness testimony has changed standard procedures in court and the outcomes of the rulings. Psychology has been profoundly important in shaping the legal system in America due to the imperfect nature and fallibility of memories. There have been various examples in the past of court rulings that were largely influenced by an eyewitness’…

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    False Memory Syndrome

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    debated, and lurid topic in this field is the false memory debate. Society has seen a staggering increase in cases of repressed memories surfacing; in fact, there have been so many that it is now being considered an epidemic. These types of memories are “often ‘recovered’ during psychotherapy and have resulted in fierce debate concerning the reality and reliability of such memories” (Memon & Young, 1998). It is the psychological debate heard around the word and has “elicited considerable…

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    False Memory Syndrome

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    False Memory Syndrome is a condition in which a memory of a traumatic experience is falsely believed to be true, having an impact on a person’s identity and relationships (Colman, 2008). While False Memory Syndrome can result in the recollection of any sort of traumatic experience from abduction by aliens to abuse by parental figures in childhood, it is most commonly as a result of sexual abuse (Santos & Costa, 2016). In fact, well-known psychologist Jean Piaget lived for several years with a…

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    Recovered Memory Therapy

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    Recovered Memory Therapy(RMT) is a therapy in which memories of abuse had been forgotten, commonly about childhood sexual abuse, can later be recovered. The mind stores real events and recreates full memories later when the memories are recalled. It does not matter how memories are recalled, they still believe to be accurate. Certain techniques are used to recreate what appears to be memories, although they may be unrelated to the actual events from the past. False memory syndrome is a condition…

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    False Memory

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    The idea of false memory has been studied since the days of Sigmund Freud. It’s defined as a fabricated or distorted recollection of an event (Cherry). The study of false memory has been used to help understand how the smallest things can make such a big impact on how we remember certain events in our minds. Most people think that a person’s memory is always accurate and can’t be changed, but many studies have been done to prove this wrong. “Though the term ' 'false memory ' ' is slippery and…

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    in long term memory. She was an expert researcher on the malleability and reliability of repressed memories. Loftus’s work has made a huge contribution to psychology and opened a unique and controversial aspect of psychology and memory. She began her research with investigations of how the mind classifies and remembers information. In the 1970’s she began to reevaluate the direction of her research. Loftus said wants to make a difference in people’s life with her research. She began to start to…

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    composes that personhood is based on the memory link between the two consciouses of different time periods, rather than the body a person is in. Locke contends that personal identity is to be founded on consciousness rather than on substance with his case of the prince and the cobbler. In this modified version of the case to fit modern understanding of consciousness, the central nervous system of a prince is relocated into the body of the cobbler. The central nervous system carries all of the…

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    Is False Memory Reliable

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    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…

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    False Memory Research

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    Introduction Background. To begin, I would like to present some background information on false memory and false memory research. False memory was really brought about in the 1990’s when two groups had differing opinions about memory. The first group, the trauma studies group, argued for the children and the adults that they grew up to be, were the victims and that the reason their memory had changes was due to the trauma they went through. They argued that these people had “repressed” their…

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    Dr Loftus False Memory

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    Our memory plays a vital part in navigating our daily lives. However, our memory is fragile, not a perfect record, as we are not always accurate because of miss information, which is everywhere, contaminating and distorting our memory. False memories are a recollection of details or events that did not actually happen or that happened very differently than an individual recall. Our sense of reality is altered with false memories. Dr. Loftus tells the story of Steve Titus an innocent man…

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