Misinformation effect

How are false autobiographical memories created? This question is important because false autobiographical memory influences the self. An autobiographical memory is the memory we have of an event that happened at a particular time and place in our past (Walker, 2016, lec 3). Therefore, a false autobiographical memory entails peoples’ recall of events that they think they experienced when in fact that event did not occur (Simone, 2016, lec 3). Furthermore, in answering the question above, we…

Return to Orwellian Society The government controls every aspect of society. A government known as Big Brother controls a society through misinformation. Big brother controls what can be broadcast on television. Big brother controls the language that people speak and their history. Big Brother uses a language called Newspeak, which eliminates all words related to a rebellion. The government uses this manipulation of language and history to dehumanize and control the population. While this…

their public relations campaign strategies that are designed to create doubt that cigarettes does not causes cancer. The public relation expert such as Hill and Knowlton realized that it would be difficult to challenge scientific facts regarding the effects of tobacco and cigarette. Instead of advising tobacco companies…

The legalization of marijuana is considered a very controversial topic in today’s world. Even though it has very useful properties in combatting the effects of various mental disorders, cancer, and other health-compromising issues, there are still individuals who are against the legalization of marijuana. “Reefer Madness,” the Marijuana Tax Act, and stricter sentencing laws in the early 1900’s drastically affected the public’s view of cannabis and the products created from it, and the stigma of…

contracted communicable diseases, including Tetanus, Polio, and Pertussis. During that time, most people were much more frightened of the diseases than of the side effects of the vaccinations. In Reality… Today the situation is reversed. In the era of helpful vaccines, many parents are becoming more concerned about the possible adverse effects. Many parents of today have never experienced the consequences of these diseases and do not fully understand the dangers they impose. The dilemma… Part…

immunization. It will then describe the importance and effects of vaccines, it will conclude by discussing the ongoing influences, advancements and debates around vaccination today. The Oxford Dictionary defines vaccination as “treatment with a vaccine to produce immunity against a disease”.…

moral exemplars, that through their commitment to moral principles, can reinforce other’s commitment. Walzer’s individualistic approach doesn’t realise the potential bad, cumulative effects that such dirty hand decisions can have on polity (moral corruption). Absolutists are necessary to mitigate such negative effects and preserve the likeliness of moral behaviour in the political arena, by reinforcing existing moral principles. Occasionally, one cannot understand what is at stake morally, until…

decades of this controversial subject there has been a lot of misinformation on both sides of the debate. Now with a total of four states with legal marijuana for recreational use, it once again raises questions of what could be the benefits of recreational marijuana and of course what could be the possible hazards. First we will look at the possible benefits of legal cannabis, and the biggest one would probably be the economic effect that follows legalization. Colorado was one of the first…

however, the study explains all results found whereas the pop science article emphasizes the advantages and erases the disadvantages. For example, the study thoroughly explains the problems with EFP, such as not having as strong or as heavy of an effect on a person as medication would. In terms of writing style, the study justifies limitations, restrictions on hypothesis, controls, etc. The pop science article only gives a brief explanation of the experimental process without defining essential…

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…