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False memory

In psychology, a false memory is a phenomenon in which someone incorrectly recalls something that did not actually happen or recalls it differently from the way it actually happened. Suggestibility, activation of associated information, the incorporation of misinformation effect, and source misattribution have been suggested to be several mechanisms…

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False memory

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related to Further reading · 39
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related to Legal cases · 20
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related to Relational processing · 13
False memory → After, Clore, Deese, DRM, Findings, In, Keeping, McDermott, Memory, Moods, Roediger, Storbeck, Verbatim
related to Word lists · 13
False memory → Almost, Anisfeld, For, Henry Roediger III, In, Kathleen McDermott, Knapp, McDermott, One, Roediger, Their, They, When
related to Individual differences · 11
False memory → Also, Creative, For, Greater, High, Individuals, Perceived, Regarding, Social, The, This
related to Hypnosis · 10
False memory → Because, Despite, However, In, Laurence, Nearly, Observers, Perry, Subjects, This
related to Age · 9
False memory → According, Activation Monitoring, Alzheimer's, Fuzzy, Huan, Since, The, These, Trace Theory
related to Staged naturalistic events · 9
False memory → After, Brewer, Half, In, Still, Subjects, The, This, Treyens
related to Trauma · 8
False memory → It, On, Researchers Strange, Takarangi, The, They, Trauma, When
related to Early work · 7
False memory → French, Freud, Janet, Pierre Janet, Sigmund Freud, Some, The

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False memoryis aphenomenon in which someone incorrectly recalls something that did not actually happen or recalls it differently from the way it actually happened0.90text
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streaminstance ofthe list would contain words0.80text
bendinstance ofthe list would contain words0.80text
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subjects seeing things that would fit in a crime scene that were not thereinstance offalse memory presented itself in ways0.80text
or not recalling things that did not fit the crime sceneinstance offalse memory presented itself in ways0.80text
the DRM word-list taskinstance ofwhich helps explain the subjective realism of false recollections from behavioral paradigms0.80text
misinformation studiesinstance ofwhich helps explain the subjective realism of false recollections from behavioral paradigms0.80text
and source monitoring experimentsinstance ofwhich helps explain the subjective realism of false recollections from behavioral paradigms0.80text

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