Retrograde amnesia

Deese-Roedieger- McDermott Paradigm The Deese-Roedieger-McDermott (DRM) paradigm represents a strategy used to implant false memories even when information is not directly exposed to an individual (Watson, Poole, Bunting, & Conway, 2005). Roediger and McDermott (1995) adopted an experimental procedure originally developed by Deese (1959) who revealed that adults who studied a list of words were more likely to report a related word that was not presented. Deese was interested in testing…

The experiment was meant to divide their attention and take note of what and how much was remembered in the end. A total of 178 children and young adults participated in the study; seventy-eight of them were 7-year-olds and forty-eight participants were 11-year-olds who received a present for participating. The remaining fifty-two young adults got class credit. A total of 10 lists were used; five of them had a total of 10 words on each list and all lists were negative, and the other five lists…

Creation of False Memories Memory is usually defined as the ability to encode, store and retain certain pieces of information that we deem important and want to recall at some point. However according to certain psychologist your memories aren't always an accurate representation of what you once saw or experience. This phenomenon is known as false memory; this occurs when our brains try to recall events that may have happened and add certain pieces of information that never occurred.In the…

Psychologists are interested in studying memory illusions and distortions in order to discover how the memory works (Bartlett, 1932; Schacter, 2001). An interest in false memories arose in the 1900s, and led to people trying to discover if suggested influences can lead to remembering pseudo-events. A procedure was introduced where adults were given a description of a childhood event, and asked to remember them (Loftus and Pickrell, 1995). All of the events described would be true except for one.…

One influential person to the study of memory is “the man who couldn’t remember,” Henry Gustav Molaison, a man known as H.M., a young boy who had severe seizures. Because of the persistent teasing from his classmates, H.M. transferred to a different school. After graduation, H.M. began to work, but because of his relentless seizures, work became too dangerous and forced him to live at home where his parents could watch him. H.M. was given anti-epileptic drugs, but they did not help. H.M. met…

Summary Erasing Bad Memories is an article that can be found on the American Psychological Association website. This article shows what researchers, neuroscientists and psychologists have been doing to try to understand how frightening memories are made and how they can possibly rid the mind of them. Many people suffer from anxiety. Usually, anxiety is induced by fearful memories. Even though someone may be in a safe situation, their brain brings back the memories and create it anxiety.…

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…