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Memory: How it Works and Recovering Lost Memories
The concept of memory and what comprises memory is often controversial. Loftus (1998) cites an article reporting on the case of a woman whose family accepted a large settlement on the grounds that health care professionals planted false memories into her mind. The woman suggested that she had been persuaded to believe multiple misconceptions regarding her history via drug therapy and hypnosis. While the case cited in this story is among the first involving allegation that psychotherapists may induce false memories, there is a long history of such cases brought to trial (Loftus, 1998).
How can this happen? The fact of the matter is that memory is for many a big mystery. Psychologists and researchers have been studying memory for some time (Goldsmith, Koriat & Pansky, 2000). The fact of the matter is no consistent conceptual framework exists for defining memory or completely understanding memory (Goldsmith, Koriat & Pansky, 2000). Memory is generally considered...
Realistically speaking people often lose correspondence between the actual event and the details recorded in their memory; thus memory in many senses is often distorted. The content of a memory or the way a person 'remembers' varies significantly from person to person depending on a number of factors including ones mental health and well being, environment and personality or preferences (Goldsmith, Koriat & Pansky, 2000).
Recovered memories, when accurate and trustworthy, may serve a variety of purposes particularly in the clinical context (Goldsmith, Koriat & Panksy, 2000). People may suppress memories during certain periods of time when they…
References:
Goldsmith, M., Koriat, A. & Pansky, A. (2000). "Toward a psychology of memory accuracy." Annual Review of Psychology, 481.
Loftus, E.F. (1998). "The price of bad memories." Skeptical Inquirer, 22: 23-24. 12, Nov
2005: http://faculty.washington.edu/eloftus/Articles/price.htm
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