PSC 130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Suggestibility, Frontal Lobe, Critical Role
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False memories: false memories, false recall and false recognition. *confident false recognitions: high confidence false memories are easy to create. Shaw & porter (2015) three 40 minute interviews over 3 weeks, asking subjects (college-aged) to report details of two recent memories (one was true, one was false) >/= 10 details reported <10 details reported: note: similar effects for crime and non-crime events, standard interview methods can produce false memory for having committed a crime (false confessions, schema-related distortions in memory. Sharpening adding typical details: distorted flashbulb memories (when a situation is so traumatic, memories are imprinted in the mind; can be false) Neisser & harsch (1992) memory for the challenger crash: test 1: 24 hours after the crash, test 2: 2 years after the crash. *accuracy of flashbulb and everyday events decreased at the same rate. Schinder (2003) false recognition across repeated tests (in patients and using fmri in controls: study/test: was the item presented in this list already? .
