Topic 7.5: False Memories
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Flashbulb memories
Emotional memories that are vivid and feel exceptionally detailed
• However, the accuracy of these memories declines over time just like the accuracy of normal memories
Imagination inflation
imagining an event inflates confidence in the likelihood that the event occurred
Source monitoring confusion
a lack of clarity about the origins of a memory. Can cause numerous memory illusions, including cryptomnesia (failure to recognize that our ideas originated somewhere else)
Suggestive memory techniques
procedure that encourages patients to recall memories that may or may not have taken place.
Misinformation effect
creation of fictitious memories by providing misleading information about an event after it takes place
• Lost in the Mall
• Impossible/implausible events
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