False memories that were studied by Elizabeth Loftus. She starts her speech with the words, “I study the opposite: when they remember things that happen or remember things that were different from the way they really were” (Loftus). A famous experiment carried out by Elizabeth Lofts in 1994 revealed that; she convinced a quarter of her participants they were once lost in a shopping center as a child. They developed an irrational fear of shopping centers. “Another similar experiment in 2002 found that half of the participants were tricked into believing they had taken a hot air balloon ride as a child, simply by showing them doctored photographic "evidence". Participants readily believed they had once been lost in a shopping centre when presented …show more content…
A surfacing of psychic ability? A memory of a dream? A trick of the imagination? Or is it something completely different? They say that déjà vu is a memory check, "It can be defined as; a novel situation which is perceived to be familiar, without any clear memory of having experienced it before" (Carr). Deja Vu is also defined from the French language, meaning “already seen” first used in the early 20th century. Most of us know the feeling. You’re introduced to someone, you watch a new movie, or you walk down a street in an unfamiliar city, and then suddenly, you’re struck by the uncanny sensation that you’ve been through this all before. You know it’s impossible — there’s no way you could have encountered this person, film or street — yet it all seems so familiar. We call this “déjà vu,” a French phrase meaning “already seen,” first used in the early 20th century. Some researchers estimate that two-thirds of the population has experienced this phenomenon, which also may be accompanied by the conviction that you know what will happen next. “Spatial resemblance + forgetting they’d been in a space with a similar layout = déjà