PSYCH 111 Chapter 10: Memory Hock Reading

• School: U of M
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 111
• Professor: Marion Perlmutter

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7, 560-572: questions addressed in original study: (list the 2 5 most important questions addressed in the original study) If it is not, why do court cases depend on it so much: findings of original study: (list the 2 5 most important findings of the original study) Using specific words can lead to purposely altering a person"s memory. The insert of words that make a situation false, can alter the memory so a person remembers something that did not actually occur, making their memory false. False presuppositions make false memories: extensions of original study (list the 2 5 most important advances made by subsequent research in this area) The wording of one question altered the way participants remembered the basic characteristics of a witnessed event. A question with presupposed details affects the way a person remembers a certain event. Memory is extremely malleable and is constructed any way that information is given, to make sense and organize an event.