Is False Memory Reliable

We may think that we have a good memory but when questioned it is revealed that we might not have as good of a memory as we previously thought. Our memory has the ability to remember things that did not happen. It is common for people to mistakenly believe past events have occurred when in fact they did not. There has been numerous studies that show when people recall past memories, they remember things that did not occur, with recall people unintentionally are able to create false memories. Recall memory is retrieving information or events from the past. The topic we have decided to study is memory., Oour motivation for studying memory is that in the past it has been shown that are memory can be quite unreliable in certain situations and

Another study that has researched false recall is Garry (1996) which investigated false memories when imagining one’s childhood. They noted that when the participants tried to recall their childhood experiences it resulted in them creating false memories. In French’s (2003) they encountered unreliable memory when trying to report anomalous experiences. Their research was collecting evidence for paranormal experiences by having participants recall the events but realized that many of the participants’ accounts of the event were unreliable. Wilson (2006) researched false memories by having participants recount dramatic news events and prompted them to remember fake news events. All these studies provide proof that false memories is a real issue although prompted in different situations. False recall is a common mistake people make when attempting to recall past events or memories, it also proves that as people are memories are unreliable when recounting past experiences and