PHL340H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Suggestibility
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Russel"s theory would say that this is not a memory, but it actually is. Russel would say that this is memory, but does not take into what makes us uncertain and thus skeptical about our memory. Russell"s theory is not a generalized theory of memory and thus does not account for semantic memory, only episodic. It rules out certain types of false memories: eg/ a man who abducted by aliens and has a memory of it. He was not in fact abducted by aliens (does not satisfy 2) No initial experience was operative in producing his currect mental state (does not satisfy three: eg/ dawn works the same way. Allows that someone can remember an event without it happening unwitting memories: eg/ of the painter. His experience of the scene was causally operative in producing a memory trace, which was causally operative in producing another memory trace.
