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Saturday, November 20, 2010

MISINFORMATION EFFECT and SOURCE AMNESIA

Exposure to subtle information can cause a misinformation effect in people’s memories. People may misremember hammers as screwdrivers, yield signs as stop signs, and events which happened during car accidents if misleading information is present.

Source amnesia occurs when a memory is falsely recalled from an incorrect source. An example is Jean Piaget’s memory of his nursemaid preventing his kidnapping which was actually a story retold around him multiple times. Since memories are reconstructed, people may be misled by the persistency of memories or how close they feel to actual life.

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