False Memories EPQ

"Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, or whatever it is that you think you remember?"- Elizabeth Loftus.                                                                                                                                                         Background on the study Professor Elizabeth Loftus is the woman at the very front line of  research into false memories and the now coined 'misinformation effect'. Hundreds of studies, from small to large, have been conducted by Loftus herself and her students. She believes that memory involves interpreting what is seen or heard then reconstructing these subjective interpretations when required. It is also said that post-event information can distort or bias a memory- in this study it is the introduction of completely new post-event information in order to attempt to not only distort a memory, but rather create a memory. As a cognitive psychology assignment, Loftus‘ student, Jim Coan, first

The term 'false memories' refers to cases in which people remember events differently from the way in which they actually occurred, or in severe cases, remember events that never happened at all.    False memories have been a query long in psychology, being studied as early as Sigmund Freud, being woven into his theories of memory repression of past events and trauma. These studies have only snowballed and gained more and more traction in recent decades with more attention being given to the subject. Frederic Barlett:  In the event of memory recall, the reconstruction of the memory can be fragmented with missing details which means that the false aspects of the memory are only filled in as the human brain recalls the information and adds fitting context around it. This context comes from theoretical 'schemas' which are essentially files of information from past learning and experiences which the brain can process and use to complete the memory ( Barle

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