PSY 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Amygdala, Psych
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Subjects watched a film about traffic safety that showed an accident. Later asked some questions about the video. The type of verb used, the higher the estimated speed. Cases, people were actually convinced that they had been lost in the mall. Planted memory study: met bugs bunny at disneyland. Is there a neural marker of true vs false memory . Kids are way more gullible than adults, so make sure words aren"t biased. Memories can be repressed and brought up again. It"s easy to convince people of events that happened. We can not tell if someone is lying or not. Your current knowledge / beliefs can affect how you remember the past. Can be self-serving you might remember your high school grades as higher than they actually were. Maybe you don"t remember all of your high school individual grades, but just the gpa. Couple of years later she was asked the same question, but the story was different.
