PSYCH230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Hindsight Bias

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH230
• Professor: John Rempel

Document Summary

Real memories also feel and look like real memories . Rejecting a true incident of sexual violation as false. Denial and repression of sexual violation is common. Repress memory (bury it) is a common way to face violation when abused during childhood. Getting recovered memories, feel like it happens -> probably did (from this book) Symptoms: shame, powerless, unworthiness, perfectionism and deficient goals. Symptoms are not unique, can occurs on people who does not experience sexual violation. Therapist create context that the memories are motivated to be. Abuser will deny and lie, strong denials should increase suspicious. Innocent people also deny and have strong denial. Many recalled memories of incest and abuse are reconstructed -> false memories . May not have evidence of the abuse other than the memories . Use of visualization, hypnosis, strong suggestions to vulnerable people by authority figure. Many memories are reconstructed during therapy sessions.