False Memories: How Our Memory Deceives Us (Discover Psychology)

How reliable are our memories? How much of what you remember is real, and how much… is an illusion?
In this video we will dive into human memory and will discuss some interesting experiments that reveal how flawed our recollections of the past actually are.
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In this video:

1. Does our memory work like a recording device or is it more like a Wikipedia page? 0:36
2. Eyewitness testimony - how false memories lead to wrong convictions 0:52
3. The case of Steve Titus 1:25
4. The car crash experiment (Loftus and Palmer) 2:18
5. Rich false memories – could researchers plant whole events in our memory that actually never happened? - Lost in the mall technique 3:16
6. False memories and autobiographical advertising – did you really shake hands with Mickey Mouse at Disney? 3:54
7. Planting false memories for food-related experiences 5:28
8. Planting false memories – ethical issues 5:59

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Research and script: Irina Georgieva
Art, editing and narration: Daniel Stamenov

Music: Tenderness - Bensound.com

Further reading:

[1] The formation of false memories
http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/harnad/P...

[2] The Consequences of False Memories for Food Preferences and Choices
https://webfiles.uci.edu/eloftus/Bern...

[3] A 30-year investigation of the malleability of memory
https://labs.wsu.edu/attention-percep...

[4] Leading questions and the eyewitness report
http://www.cog.brown.edu/courses/cg19...

[5] Eyewitness testimony: The influence of wording a question
http://www.appsychology.com/IB%20Psyc...

[6] Pluto behaving badly: False beliefs and their consequences
https://webfiles.uci.edu/eloftus/Berk...

[7] Make My Memory: How Advertising Can Change Our Memories of the Past
https://faculty.washington.edu/eloftu...

[8] Rich false memories: The royal road to success
https://webfiles.uci.edu/eloftus/Loft...

[9] How and When Advertising Can Influence Memory for Consumer Experience
http://scholarship.sha.cornell.edu/cg...

[10] Constructing rich false memories of committing crime
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2...

[11] Cognitive Psychology – Sixth edition
http://cs.um.ac.ir/images/87/books/Co...