Constructive Nature Of False Memory

Memory is the ability of our brain to encode, store, retain and recall information and past experiences in the brain. According to Schater and Tulving (as cited in 2001), state that memory can be defined by its brain mechanism, the kind of information it processes, and the principle of its operation. Memory is what we remember and the knowledge gives human ability to learn from the past. It is also the process where we adapt the knowledge that we learned and can change our behaviour.

The lessons about memory that can be learned from the article is although memory seems solid and unchangeable. It is also can be fabricated or change according to the way they expected which is called false memory. False memory happen when people remember detailed

This show that human’s memory can be easily influenced by implanting false memory of something that never happen and they will started to believe that it actually happened to them.

2)Explain the constructive nature of memory and elaborate your points in a report.

Constructive nature of memory is define as a type recollection characterized by the utilization of basic insight retained in the memory to build a more thorough and complex report of an experience of occurrence (Pam M.S., 2013). Constructive memory refers to previous experience affects how a person remembers things and what they actually recall from their memories.

However, constructive memory can sometimes add false details of events that did not happened to human memory. According to Schacter (2012), Schacter and Addis have put forward the constructive episodic simulation hypothesis, which holds past and future events draw on similar information stored in memory and rely on similar underlying process. The construction of future events are supported by episodic memory which take part in extracting and recombining stored information in the brain into a simulation of

However, the process of recombining past event may be vulnerable to inaccuracies and distortion that results from mistakenly linking the elements of imagination and memory. One of the most intriguing findings from neuro-imaging studies that is relevant to the constructive episodic simulation hypothesis concerns the robust activation of the hippocampus (Schacter, 2012).

Hippocampus is a part of the brain where it is connected mainly with memory, in particular long-term memory, where a person regulate of imagining future events. To identify whether an individual is remembering or imagining the past, there are two part of tests can be conducted. The initial phase is called construction where the person generates their memories by reacting to the cue word and make a button-press when they have an events in mind when the words were shown. The second one is elaboration phase, where participants will try to generate every details about the events that they remembered