False Memories: Jennifer Thompson And Ronald Cotton

The speech from Elizabeth Loftus “The Fiction of Memory” she mentions that she study false memory for almost 30 years. False memory is the things that people remember but didn’t happened or remember it differently than the way they really were. After watch the video “The Fiction of Memory” by Elizabeth Loftus, I realize that false memory can be affect on everyone. In my personal experience; sometime I went to the place that I never been there before, but I will believe that is place I have been when I was child.

A humans memory contains all that they have learnt and all they have experienced. Memories allow moments of today and yesterday last tomorrow and forever. It may seem that memories are a reliable source of information for a large majority of individuals but what would they think if their memories were actually wrong? To realize the memories that have been held in their minds for so long are inaccurate would cause great confusion and denial, which is the exact effect it has on them. Several people truly believe the reason why such a significant amount of others along with themselves have false memories is The Mandela Effect.

We may experience normal forgetfulness in our daily lives, but there is a certain level that can only be a sin of the memory. A situation where our memories put us into trouble. The memory plays an essential purpose in our lives, but we tend to assume its significance until we are in an incident of forgetting or distortion that demands our attention. These are situations where the memory betrays us, abandons us and puts us in trouble. In his work, “The Seven Sins of Memory: How the Mind Forgets and Remembers”, Daniel Schacter explores and breaks down seven ways in which the memory sins but goes on to insist that this is not a biological shortcoming but rather an indication of a properly functioning memory.

“When Everything Burns” The smell of burning plastic and wood fills the air I fight back the tears, I tell myself that I should’t care. There’s a screaming panic within and uncontrollable fears. As I watch my memories slowly melting away, I’m left on the sidelines to simply watch things crumble.

MISINFORMATION EFFECT ABSTRACT The present experiment was conducted to study the effect of misinformation on human memory. It was conducted to see whether a misled narrative would lead to participants’ reduced accuracy in responses. To study the misinformation effect, the experiment was conducted on 164 participants. Half of the participants were exposed to the controlled condition where they were shown a neutral video and then given a neutral narrative to read and were questioned based on that video.

From the various examples of false memory case, we learned that human having false memories because they have different ways to recall past lives. They like to say something that is not true. They imagine the incident happened but yet they never experienced the situation. Memory helps us to recall the information and our past events. Memory is the processes involved in retaining, retrieving and using information about images, events, and skill after the original information is no longer present.

In this week’s Ted Talk, Elizabeth Loftus explained some of her studies on false memories. She investigates when people remember things that did not happen or remember things in a different way. In one of her studies, Loftus showed participants simulated car accidents and then asked them questions to know what they remembered. She asked them, how fast the cars were when they smashed into each other. Using the word “smashed” influenced participants to say that the cars were going really fast and they remembered seeing broken glass in the scene, when in reality there was no broken glass.

2.1 Representation and identity A Cultural theorist, also a leading figure of the development of media and cultural studies, Stuart Hall’s cultural representation theory is very representative and has a significant impact in the field of cultural studies. His book “Representation: Cultural representations and signifying practices” published in 1997 is a study of the crucial links between language, culture and how shared meanings are constructed and represented within the language. Hall believes culture plays the primary role in how we construct meaning and representation was closely related to culture. Representation is the process by which meaning is produced and exchanged between members of a culture through the use of language, such as

Intro: Memory is a cognitive process involved in the storage and subsequent retrieval of information. Reconstructive memory, then, refers to the process of using one’s schema, or categorized previous knowledge, to assemble information of an event when a clear/coherent memory of it does not exist. This happens especially with traumatic events, since the victim’s cortisol levels heighten and their emotions are at a peak. Reconstructive memory is reliable to the extent that it can be altered by existing schemas, as proved by Bartlett (1932), Loftus and Palmer (1974), and Neisser and Harsch (1992), however, there are confounding variables such as levels of importance, stress, and the questions asked, all which may enforce one’s remembrance, as

Human Memory What did you have for dinner last night? Chicken? Ham? Pasta? What about four weeks ago?