PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Source Amnesia, Confabulation, Episodic Memory

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jens C Pruessner

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Eyewitness confidence: those that are wrong are just as confident as those who are right, perhaps even more so. Simon: the innocents project: police officers and prosecutors influence memory through the way in which they conduct the identification process. ) capgras syndrome: patients delusionaly believe their family members have been replaced by impostors, even when presented with contradictory evidence. Such patients often have damage to their frontal lobes and the limbic brain regions. Loftus points out that there is little evidence that recovered memories are genuine or at least sufficiently accurate to be believable. Schacter alludes to the frightening possibility that repressed memories might have been introduced by misguided therapists. Halbrook: in a group therapy, she thought she had been abused in satanic rituals and killed a baby. When we remember something, the brain areas activated are the same ones that were activated when we learned them. Practice: the more time you repeat an action, the easier it gets.