PSYC 325 Chapter : psyc 325 - ch 8 definition False memory

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 325
• Professor: Mario Liotti

Document Summary

Occurs when brain emerges from rem sleep but body still paralyzed can be very distressing. Combined with hypnosis therapy = major source of false memories. Match between retrieved memory and actual event from past. False memories created by post event misinformation; witness event and then later receive false information about what occurred during that event - if later remember false information, a misinformation effect occurred. Loftus data demonstrated unreliability of eyewitness memory. Tendency to incorporate information from sources other than original witnessed event. Other sources may be potentially misleading, (sources may be other people, written materials, or pictures) Drm context allow for associations between sleep and all of the words to strongly activate the word sleep in memory so at time of recall, word. Sleep is highly activated activation mistakenly confused with episodic memory. When items are encoded, they are not encoded literally but in terms of their meaning.