Psychology Category
Memories for events that never occurred, and everyday reconstruction errors such as misattribution and source confusion. Includes the misinformation effect and eyewitness reliability.
Welcome to the False Memory and Memory Distortions category of this site. Here you will find clear, detailed articles covering key topics related to False Memory and Memory Distortions.
A detailed guide to aging and the increase in memory errors. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to associative memory networks and gist based errors. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to boundary extension and scene memory distortion. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to cognitive interview techniques and eyewitness accuracy. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to counterfactual thinking and the distortion of prior events. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to cryptomnesia and the unconscious plagiarism of ideas. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to drift toward consensus in social memory. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to encoding specificity and context dependent errors. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to eyewitness misidentification and suggestive lineups. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to false memories in childhood recollection. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to false memory and the misinformation effect in children. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to familiarity without recollection and false recognition. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to flashbulb memory accuracy over time. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to fuzzy trace theory and false memory susceptibility. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to hypnotic suggestibility and the creation of false memories. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to imagination inflation and false memory creation. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to individual differences in false memory proneness. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to intrusion errors in list learning paradigms. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to leading questions and the shaping of recall. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to memory conformity in dyadic recall. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to memory reconsolidation and the modification of memories. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to mood congruent memory and emotional distortion. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to neuroimaging of false memory formation. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to post event contamination in legal settings. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to prospective memory errors and source confusion. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to reality monitoring of real versus imagined events. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to recovered memory therapy and its discredited practices. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to repressed memories and the memory wars controversy. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to retroactive interference and memory updating errors. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to schemas and their role in memory distortion. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to sleep and the vulnerability of memory to distortion. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to social contagion of memory in groups. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to source monitoring errors in everyday memory. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to stereotype consistency and memory bias. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to suggestibility across the lifespan. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to testing and the reduction of false memories. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to the deese roediger mcdermott false memory paradigm. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to the effects of repeated retrieval on memory error. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to the impact of media coverage on memory distortion. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to the mandela effect and collective false memory. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to the misattribution of familiarity in deja vu. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to the misinformation effect and post event information. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to the persistence and reversal of false beliefs. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to the planting of entire false autobiographical events. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to the retrieval induced forgetting effect. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to the role of emotion in memory distortion. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to the sleeper effect and source memory decay. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to trauma and memory distortion in clinical populations. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to verbal overshadowing and perceptual memory loss. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to witness confidence and the accuracy of testimony. Covers key mechanisms, psychological significance, and clinical relevance.
