False Memories and Their Impact on Eyewitness Testimony

False Memories
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False memory and false memory experiments
A false memory may be referred as being a distorted and fabricated recollection
of a particular event. False memory is the involvement of the mind which is
incorrectly regarded as a veridical symbol for any event in someone’s past
(Goldstein, 2014). The experiments on false memory stay used in the past of any
person. False memories affects always some special or normal distracters.

False memory can affect the eyewitness testimony
Research in this situation is assumed by the cognitive for community, and the
permissible or forensic psychologists. Eyewitness testimony may involve uncertain
things, this can be from the interviews that seem suspicious, the confessions which
are untrue, the consequent impartiality failures and discoveries of dishonesty in the
meetings. Memory for the proceedings for an eyewitnesses is one of the areas of
special interest.

The observers and the victims that are affected by corruption are exposed in the validation of the
imposing errors of reminiscence, this has consequences in the belongings as being considerable
as the belief of the factual individuals found not guilty (Read & Connolly, 2007).