PSY 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 35: Anterograde Amnesia, Long-Term Potentiation, Repressed Memory
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Suggestibility: memories implanted in minds based on leading questions, comments and suggestions from another source. Recovered memory: a real event encoded and not retrieved for a long time, it is retrieved after a later event brings it to consciousness. Plausible situations are more likely to be believed true. Being presented with corroborating evidence enhances plausibility of an implausible event. False memory syndrome is related to false confessions and if the confession was given during an altered state of consciousness. On 9/28/12 a man was released from death row after 15 years he was cleared on dna evidence, a confession was given under hypnosis. Recognition: the ability to match pieces of information to stored images and facts. False positive: error of recognition where people think they recognize a stimulus but not an actual memory. Consolidation: changes in structure and functioning of neurons when the memory is formed.
