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Fabricated or Distorted Recollection: False Memories

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False memories: False memories are mental experiences

that people believe are accurate representations of past


events. A false memory is a fabricated or distorted
recollection of an event. Such memories may be entirely false
and imaginary. In other cases, they may contain elements of
fact that have been distorted by interfering information or
other memory distortions.

These memories are based on the happenings which are


happened to a person in his childhood or same days, years
ago .In 1974, Elizabeth loftus and john Palmer conducted a
study, In one study the participants watched the video of cars
accident and were asked what they have saw in the film. Some
participants were asked how fast were the cars going when
they smashed into each other? While the other asked the same
question but the word “smashed” is replaced with “hit”.

When the participants were given a memory test pertaining to


the accident a weak later, those who had been asked the
“smashed” to a question were likely to have a more false
memory about the accident.
Loftus suggested that after some time the original memory got
faded and false memory build more readily.

CAUSES OF FALSE MEMORY

Factors that can influence bad memories include


misinformation and misattribution of the original source of the
information.

Can we create false memories?

Yes, people usually recall childhood events that happened to


them and through effective suggestion they can even make
new false memories. People can be tricked into remembering
events that never happened or totally change the detail of
things that actually happened.

Preschool aged children are more susceptible than older


children and adults.

Types of Eye witness memory


Recall memory: Reporting details of previously
witnessed event which is happened to them or to other person
and they have eye witnessed that moment. Those people
fabricate the event according to their own sensitive mind which
causes problem and these event remain with them for a longer
period.

Recognition memory: Reporting whether what is


currently being viewed/ heard is the same as previously
witnessed person/event of interest

Nature of eye witness memory


1) Murder ,shootout ,accidents ,robbery
2) Emotional and stressful arousing
3) Reconstructive process

Potential effect of false memories


While we all are familiar with the fallibility of memory (who
hasn’t forgotten an important bit of information). May people
do not realize how common false memory really is .People are
remarkably susceptible to suggestion which can create
memories of events and things that didn’t really happen to us.

For example: a memory that you plug your phone to the


charger but in reality you don’t. Actually we fabricate the things
by ourselves which are not actually happened.

False memory can have serious implications. Researchers have


found that false memories are one of the leading cause of false
conviction, usually through the false identification of a suspect
or false recollections during police interrogations.

It is very difficult to believe that we all have false memories.


Our memories are not as reliable as we think with the passage
of time they got faded and form quite easily, even among those
people who have very good memories.

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