Creating False Memory Analysis

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Creating False Memory by Distractors Memory is important part of cognitive process that provide people to keep data that they encode, store and retrieve (Feldman, 2013). Memory is consist of three parts which are sensory memory, short term memory and long term memory (Feldman, 2013). Short Term Memory (STM) has capacity to keep data for fifteen to twenty five seconds and according to its signification rather than as pure sensory excitation and its hold limit has been detached maximum as seven items and the data through rehearsal could transfer long term memory (rehearsal mean the repetition of data that has come in short term memory) (Feldman, 2013). Long Term Memory (LTM) that hold data on a relatively consistent foundation, in spite …show more content…

Episodic memory refers for events that occurred in a particular time, place or context. Semantic memory refers for general information and facts about the world, and also it is memory that included the rules of logic that are used to understand other facts (Feldman, 2013). Cue dependent forgetting indicate that data can be forgotten because of there are inadequately retrieval cues kindle data that in memory (Feldman, 2013). Elaborating rehearsal indicates that when data is considered and established in some form (Feldman, 2013). Other concept is that decay refers the loss of data in memory based on nonuse of the data (Feldman, 2013). Another concept is that Interference as a notion refers to the event by which data in memory disrupts the recollection of other data (Feldman, 2013). There are two types of interference that have significantly influence on forgetting. First is proactive interference is that refers interference in which data had been learned disrupts the recollection of data that have been learned (Feldman, 2013). Secondly, retroactive interference as another kind of interference in which material that have been learned disrupts the recall of …show more content…

Ethical confirmation was obtained. The participants joined the experiment voluntarily. There were fifteen trials and each trial had been started by pressing once on the ‘next trial’ button. The empty space on the left of the window had shown a sequence of fifteen letters, each presented for one and half second. Each trial has possible recollection of seven words that had been presented in the list, eight words that had not been presented in the original list, and one special distracter word that not listed in the original list. After the full sequence had been presented, the buttons on the right would become clickable in order to labels for words, inclusive some of those just shown. The other buttons contained distractor words. The participants couldn’t press on more than ten buttons, and each button could only be clicked once for a given sequence. The participants’ task was to click on the buttons for the words that were shown. All of the words that displayed in the listed did not showed on the buttons. The participants could press on the buttons in any order they like. The participants were sitting with each other, while they were doing the task. The participants who finished his/her task signaled by the hand and then their result were recorded by the researcher. The participants were informed to wait until all of tasks were completed and the statistical