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Psychology (Cognitive)

Causes of False Memory Formation in Children

posted by Michael Szul in psychology (cognitive) on

False memory formation is a curious and potentially damaging error in memory encoding that seems to be especially more prominent in children. A false memory is a form of retrieval failure, only this failure represents the mistaken recall of some event that has not actually happened (Terry, 2009). In psychological testing, the Deese-Roediger-McDermott (DRM) procedure showcased how intrusions of false recall can occur when actual stimuli consist of associated items (Terry, 2009). For example, in ...