In psychology, a false memory is a phenomenon where someone recalls something that did not actually happen or recalls it differently from the way it actually...
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false memory syndrome (FMS) was a proposed "pattern of beliefs and behaviors" in which a person's identity and relationships are affected by false memories...
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The False Memory Syndrome Foundation (FMSF) was a nonprofit organization founded in 1992 and dissolved in late 2019. The FMSF was created by Pamela and...
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Ramona false memory case concerns a California man, Gary Ramona, who successfully sued psychiatrists who supposedly implanted false memories of abuse...
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Confabulation (redirect from Synthetic memory)
can increase confidence in false memories. In rare cases, confabulation occurs in ordinary individuals. Different memory tests, including recognition...
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False Memory is a horror novel by the American author Dean Koontz, released in 1999. False Memory was first released by Cemetery Dance Publications as...
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could result in the creation of entirely false memories. Subsequent accusations based on such "recovered memories" led to substantial harm of individuals...
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phenomena involving both true memories (i.e., memories about events that actually happened) as well as false memories (i.e., memories about events that never...
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List of cognitive biases (redirect from List of memory biases)
where a memory is mistaken for novel thought or imagination, because there is no subjective experience of it being a memory. False memory, where imagination...
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Lost in the mall technique (category Memory)
entirely false memories in people. The technique was developed in the context of the debate about the existence of repressed memories and false memory syndrome...
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Dissociative identity disorder (category Memory disorders)
psychotherapy, often involving recovered memories (memories that the person previously had amnesia for) or false memories, and that such therapy could cause...
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professional mental health associations. RMT can result in patients developing false memories of sexual abuse from their childhood and events such as alien abduction...
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Elizabeth Loftus (category Memory researchers)
best known in relation to the misinformation effect, false memory and criticism of recovered memory therapies. Loftus's research includes the effects of...
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cells Collective memory, memory that is shared, passed on, and constructed by a group Explicit memory False memory Immunological memory, a characteristic...
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recollections. Cases concerning memory distrust syndrome have led to documented false confessions in court cases. The main symptom of memory distrust syndrome is...
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Hyperthymesia (redirect from Superior autobiographical memory)
James L.; Loftus, Elizabeth F. (2013-12-24). "False memories in highly superior autobiographical memory individuals". Proceedings of the National Academy...
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Eva (1 December 2017). "Collective narratives, false memories, and the origins of autobiographical memory". Biology & Philosophy. 32 (6): 839–853. doi:10...
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Ira Hyman (section False memory stories)
focused on human memory including traumatic memories, false childhood memories, autobiographical memory, memory in social context, and memory for phobia onset...
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Age regression in therapy (section False memories)
can easily acquire false memories. Joseph Green, a professor at Ohio University, conducted a study on hypnotherapy and false memories. In the study, 48...
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Childhood amnesia (redirect from First Memory)
can create false memories of the event by imagining the event over time. Therefore, this implies that it would be possible for false memories to be generated...
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Rote learning (redirect from Rote memory)
formulas. There is greater understanding if students commit a formula to memory through exercises that use the formula rather than through rote repetition...
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Pennsylvania, known for work in category theory and for founding the False Memory Syndrome Foundation. Freyd obtained his Ph.D. from Princeton University...
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with repeated recollection, false memories may become more like true memories and acquire greater detail. False memory syndrome is a controversial condition...
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German-Canadian psychologist and popular science writer who specialises in false memories. Shaw has been an honorary Research Associate in Psychology at University...
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Childhood memory refers to memories formed during childhood. Among its other roles, memory functions to guide present behaviour and to predict future outcomes...
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Eidetic memory (/aɪˈdɛtɪk/ eye-DET-ik), also known as photographic memory and total recall, is the ability to recall an image from memory with high precision—at...
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event that actually never happened. The false memories that have been successfully implanted in people's memories include remembering being lost in a mall...
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Clive Wearing (redirect from The Man with the 7 Second Memory)
Since then, he has lacked the ability to form new memories and cannot recall aspects of his memories, frequently believing that he has only recently awoken...
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Forgetting curve (redirect from Strength of memory)
concept is the strength of memory that refers to the durability that memory traces in the brain. The stronger the memory, the longer period of time that...
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components: cryptomnesia, false memories, and source confusion. It was originally noted as one of Daniel Schacter's seven sins of memory. Cryptomnesia is a form...
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