PSYC 2740 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Midlife Crisis, Unconscious Mind, Hypnosis

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2740
• Professor: Stephen Lewis

Document Summary

False memories: memories that have been implanted for events that did. Important to identify the processes that can lead to a false memory: popular press. Hypnosis has been proven to not improve memory at all. Under hypnosis people are more imaginative, more spontaneous and more emotional. It has been associated with increased distortions of memory. Imagination inflation effect: occurs when a memory is elaborated upon through imagination, leading the person to confuse the imagined event with events that actually happened. After showing a person an advertisement suggesting that they shook hands with mickey mouse as a child, those people later had a higher confidence that they had personally shook hands with mickey mouse. Therapists can suffer from confirmatory bias: the tendency to look only for evidence that confirms their previous hunch and to not look for evidence that might disconfirm their belief. When asked to pick a word out of a line up you would choose coke .