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5 unusual facts about false memory


False memory

False memory syndrome, a condition in which a person's identity and relationships are affected by strongly believed but false memories of traumatic experiences

Source-monitoring error, an effect in which memories are incorrectly attributed to different experiences than the ones that caused them

Misinformation effect, false memories caused by exposure to misleading information presented between the encoding of an event and its subsequent recall

Confabulation, the production of fabricated, distorted or misinterpreted memories without the conscious intention to deceive

Memory errors

False memories, sometimes referred to as confabulation, refer to the recollection of inaccurate details of an event, or recollection of a whole event that never occurred.


Corona del Mar, Newport Beach

It is the setting for the Fox series Arrested Development as well as residence of Martine and Dustin Rhodes in the Dean Koontz novel False Memory.

Lawrence Wright

Among Wright's other books is Remembering Satan: A Tragic Case of Recovered Memory (1994), about the Paul Ingram false memory case.


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