Background
False memories of events induced in patients by asking them about events which they never experienced.
What is the false memory induction procedure?
These researchers argue that many recovered memories may in fact be brought about by false memory induction procedure.
What are cognitive based memory researchers?
Hyman and Pentland discovered in their study that
What is A limited amount of people described details on an event which never happened?
The effect which hypnosis has on false memories.
What is it increases the probability of false memories?
The tendency for post event information to interfere with the memory of the original event.
What is the misinformation effect?
College students.
What study group did Loftus use to observe to see if they would generate false episodic memories?
For ethical reasons, this form of memories are avoided.
What are abuse memories?
Mazzoni and Memon discovered in their study that
What is when participants returned they were unable to recall imagining the events from before?
A benefit of hypnosis, aside from implanting false memories.
What is a decrease in pain?
When people decide to not remember an item.
What is retrieval active suppression?
Debate arose from different views of memory betweem cognitive psychology and schools of psychotherapy grounded in which theory?
What is Freudian theory?
Techniques used to recover repressed memories.
What are hypnosis, guided imagery, writing in journals, and trace writing?
The goal of McCloskey and Zaragoza's study.
What is to prove that Loftus' studies were actually because of response bias?
Hypnosis leads to a smaller increase in this type of memory.
What are true memories?
A key component of false memory induction.
What is repetition?
Childhood memories.
What timeframe did experimenters create these false memories in?
A possible issue which false memories arise.
What is they can distract attention from the root of the person's problems?
Loftus and Pickrell developed this study regarding false memories.
What is the lost in the mall study?
A method where people can incorporate false information into autobiographical memory.
What is suggestibility?
The retrieval of previously forgotten events.
What is the recovery of repressed memories?
A researcher asks a participant repeatedly about being lost in an amusement park although this never happened. This is an example of
What is false memory induction procedure?
At best, this percentage of people remember false memories which are ordinary and not traumatic.
What is 50%?
Shaw and Porter developed a study to test this.
What is to see is repeated suggestive questioning and guided imagery could induce memories of one committing a crime?
Hunter and Eimer discovered this in their study.
What is hypnosis has some practical value?
Researchers induce false memories by having the participants imagine an event.
What is imagiantion inflation?