false memory
Imagined past event
A false memory is a memory of something that did not actually occur.
False memories can arise from misinterpretation of events, from the suggestions of others, or from the mind’s attempt to make a coherent story out of disparate facts.
Invented memories believed true
- misattributionCrediting the wrong source
- reconstructionRebuilding after destruction
- schemaOrganized representational structure
- encodingConverting data to format
retrieval · suggestibility · implantation · eyewitness · testimony · recall · flashbulb · interference
Embedding into tissue
- hypnosisInduced trance state
- interrogationFormal, probing examination
- misinformationFalse data spread unintentionally
- coercionPressured compliance through threats
manipulation · eyewitness · testimony · priming · coaching · lineup · contamination · plausibility
One who saw events
- testimonySworn statement as evidence
- interrogationFormal, probing examination
- lineupOrdered list of participants
- cross-examinationOpposing party questions witness
witness · reliability · forensic · courtroom · misidentification · confession · corroboration · jury
Lasting psychological wound
- psychotherapyTreatment through guided conversation
- hypnotherapyTherapeutic use of trance
- EMDRTrauma therapy using eye movements
- regressionReturn to former state
abreaction · therapist · dissociation · integration · processing · counseling · transference · retraumatization
Memory formation region
- consolidationCombining into unified whole
- reconsolidationMemory re-storage after recall
- encodingConverting data to format
- retrievalAct of getting back
plasticity · amygdala · fMRI · engram · synaptic · distortion · neuroimaging · sleep
confabulation
Invented memories believed true
- misattributionCrediting the wrong source
- reconstructionRebuilding after destruction
- schemaOrganized representational structure
encoding · retrieval · suggestibility · implantation · eyewitness · testimony · recall · flashbulb · interference
implantation
Embedding into tissue
- hypnosisInduced trance state
- interrogationFormal, probing examination
- misinformationFalse data spread unintentionally
coercion · manipulation · eyewitness · testimony · priming · coaching · lineup · contamination · plausibility · repetition
eyewitness
One who saw events
- testimonySworn statement as evidence
- interrogationFormal, probing examination
- lineupOrdered list of participants
cross-examination · witness · reliability · forensic · courtroom · misidentification · confession · corroboration · jury · credibility
trauma
Lasting psychological wound
- psychotherapyTreatment through guided conversation
- hypnotherapyTherapeutic use of trance
- EMDRTrauma therapy using eye movements
regression · abreaction · therapist · dissociation · integration · processing · counseling · transference · retraumatization · iatrogenic
hippocampus
Memory formation region
- consolidationCombining into unified whole
- reconsolidationMemory re-storage after recall
- encodingConverting data to format
retrieval · plasticity · amygdala · fMRI · engram · synaptic · distortion · neuroimaging · sleep · REM
- memory testsword recall, name recall, face recognition
- unreal thingsillusion, delusion, fantasy, fiction, imaginary
- Psychology ResearchStanford prison experiment, Pavlov's dogs, marshmallow test, classical conditioning, operant conditioning
- Memory Themesflashbacks, amnesia, nostalgia, deja vu, recall
- mind tropesmad scientist, mental breakdown, mind control, multiple personality, nervous breakdown
- self-deceptiondenial, delusion, wishful thinking, rationalization, willful blindness
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