PSY328H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Confabulation
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We rely on our schemes to make up our memories. Confabulation is so prevalent that it is a part of every memory. We don"t know the difference between what we made up and what is true. Our memory isn"t nearly as good as we think it is. Only 9 departments show pictures one by one. These are just 2 cases but it shares commonalities, there wasn"t a solid id made. Overtime, police concentrated on a particular suspect even though witnesses didn"t pick him out. It is surprisingly easy to distort and/or create memories. Victim is motivated with wanting to suppress what happened, beliefs are overwhelmingly making them change their decision. Jack ramsay charged with the crime was a member of parliament, rcp officer in. Saskatchewan - he picked her up on street, out late, brought her in station and asked her if she was a virgin, said she was raped.
