Memories which Mistaken more easily remembered than is true

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Some say that the memories unforgettable. Opinions are not necessarily entirely true, because there are many people who are very difficult to forget the bad memories to be traumatized. One study found that people are more difficult to forget the memories that false memories than the right.

Basically, the human memory is limited and subject to change. Every time remembering things, memory in the brain called less than perfect. So every time the memory is trying to call, accuracy may be questionable.

In the early 1990s, many people claim to remember the memory of a traumatic experience. Some critics suspect it is because the techniques used by therapists to unlock the memories stored patients have in common with making false memories

Many leading psychologists report that these people have more false memories than the actual original memories are stored. In a recent study, researchers selected 342 people attend and exhibit 50 shows on 2 events quickly.

During those impressions shown, researchers rerun voice comments as if there are people who were eyewitnesses. One display showed a man breaking into and stealing from cars. While other shows showed a man stole purse from a girl.

Narratives are included on each slide as if describing a scene is shown. And, in fact there are 12 impressions were manipulated so that narratives tell a different story of the scene is shown. For example, the display shows a man leaning against the window, but the narrative that the man leaning against the door.

The researchers then asked the participants what he had seen and where they get their source. The goal is to test whether the participants could distinguish true memories with false. For example, a man leaning against the window is true memories, while men leaned against the door which is a fake.

In the first test, 61 percent of participants are true memories, while there are 31 percent false. The participants were called back the next 1.5 years to watch the same shows. This time, the researchers will stop the display before showing impressions are manipulated and then asked the participants what happens next.

As reported by Medical Daily, Monday (11/19/2012), the researchers found that the correct memory decline and remained at 45 percent retention of participants. But false memories increase and remain as much as 39 percent of the time.

This suggests that the true memories fade, but the memories are false increase. This study shows that although the error information can be seen easily, but the mistake remained strong, sometimes even more powerful than the true memories.

source:  Medical Daily