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The Memory Illusion

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by Dr Julia Shaw


  12 Brainerd, C. J., Reyna, V. F., Wright, R., & Mojardin, A. H. (2003). Recollection rejection: false-memory editing in children and adults. Psychological Review, 110 (4): 762.

  13 Shaw, J., & Porter, S. (2015). Constructing rich false memories of committing crime. Psychological Science, 26 (3): 291–301.

  14 Hyman, I. E., Husband, T. H., & Billings, F. J. (1995). False memories of childhood experiences. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 9 (3): 181–97.

  15 Porter, S., Yuille, J. C., & Lehman, D. R. (1999). The nature of real, implanted, and fabricated memories for emotional childhood events: implications for the recovered memory debate. Law and Human Behavior, 23 (5): 517–37.

  16 Shaw, J. (2015). True or false memory? Evidence that naïve observers have difficulty identifying false memories of emotional events, especially for audio-only accounts. Paper presentation at the annual meeting of the Society for Applied Research on Memory and Cognition, Victoria, Canada.

  17 Morgan, C. A., Southwick, S., Steffian, G., Hazlett, G. A., & Loftus, E. F. (2013). Misinformation can influence memory for recently experienced, highly stressful events. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 36 (1): 11–17.

  18 Schooler, J. W., & Engstler-Schooler, T. Y. (1990). Verbal overshadowing of visual memories: some things are better left unsaid. Cognitive Psychology, 22 (1): 36–71.

  19 Alogna, V. K., Attaya, M. K., Aucoin, P., Bahník, Š., Birch, S., Bornstein, B., et al. (2014). Registered replication report: Schooler & Engstler-Schooler (1990). Perspectives on Psychological Science, 9 (5): 556–78.

  20 Schooler & Engstler-Schooler (1990). Verbal overshadowing of visual memories.

  21 Ibid.

  22 Henkel, L. A. (2011). Photograph-induced memory errors: When photographs make people claim they have done things they have not. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 25 (1): 78–86.

  23 Brown, A. S., & Marsh, E. J. (2008). Evoking false beliefs about autobiographical experience. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 15 (1): 186–90.

  24 Wade, K. A., Garry, M., Read, J. D., & Lindsay, D. S. (2002). A picture is worth a thousand lies: using false photographs to create false childhood memories. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 9 (3): 597–603.

  25 Lindsay, D. S., Hagen, L., Read, J. D., Wade, K. A., & Garry, M. (2004). True photographs and false memories. Psychological Science, 15 (3): 149–54.

  26 Mitchell, J. T. (1983). When disaster strikes: the critical incident stress debriefing process. Journal of Emergency Medical Services 8 (1): 36–9.

  27 Devilly, G. J., & Cotton, P. (2003). Psychological debriefing and the workplace: Defining a concept, controversies and guidelines for intervention. Australian Psychologist, 38 (2): 144–50.

  28 Kilpatrick, D. G., Resnick, H. S., Milanak, M. E., Miller, M. W., Keyes, K. M., & Friedman, M. J. (2013). National estimates of exposure to traumatic events and PTSD prevalence using DSM-IV and DSM-5 criteria. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 26 (5): 537–47.

  Chapter 8

  1 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95256794

  2 Russ, M., and Crews, D. E. (2014). A survey of multitasking behaviors in organizations. International Journal of Human Resource Studies, 4 (1).

  3 Junco, R., and Cotten S. R. (2012). No A 4 U: The relationship between multitasking and academic performance. Computers & Education, 59 (2): 505–14.

  4 Miller, E. K., & Buschman, T. J. (2013). Brain rhythms for cognition and consciousness. Neurosciences and the Human Person: New Perspectives on Human Activities, 121, www.casinapioiv.va/content/dam/accademia/pdf/sv121/sv121-miller.pdf

  5 Buschman, T. J., Denovellis, E. L., Diogo, C., Bullock, D., & Miller, E. K. (2012). Synchronous oscillatory neural ensembles for rules in the prefrontal cortex. Neuron, 76 (4): 838–46.

  6 Strayer, D. L, Drews, F. A., & Crouch, D. J. (2006). A comparison of the cell phone driver and the drunk driver. Human Factors, 48 (2): 381–91.

  7 Miller-Ott, A. & Kelly, L. (2015). The presence of cell phones in romantic partner face-to-face interactions: An expectancy violation theory approach. Southern Communication Journal, 80 (4): 253–70.

  8 Roberts, J. A., & David, M. E. (2016). My life has become a major distraction from my cell phone: Partner phubbing and relationship satisfaction among romantic partners. Computers in Human Behavior, 54: 134–41.

  9 Clark, B. F. (2013). From yearbooks to Facebook: public memory in transition. International Journal of the Book, 10 (3): 19.

  10 Gabbert, F., Memon, A., & Allan, K. (2003). Memory conformity: Can eyewitnesses influence each other’s memories for an event? Applied Cognitive Psychology, 17 (5): 533–43

  11 Brown, A. S., Caderao, K. C., Fields, L. M. & Marsh, E. J. (2015). Borrowing personal memories. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 29 (3): 471–7.

  12 Asch, S. E. (1956). Studies of independence and conformity: A minority of one against a unanimous majority. Psychological Monographs, 70 (9): 1–70.

  13 Deutsch, M., & Gerard, H. B. (1955). A study of normative and informational social influences upon individual judgment. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 51 (3): 629–36.

  14 Ariely, D. (2008). Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions. New York: HarperCollins Publishers.

  15 Mazar, N., Amir, O., & Ariely, D. (2008). The dishonesty of honest people: A theory of self-concept maintenance. Journal of Marketing Research, 45 (6): 633–44.

  16 Wegner, D. M., Erber, R., & Raymond, P. (1991). Transactive memory in close relationships. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 61 (6): 923–9.

  17 https://blog.kaspersky.com/digital-amnesia-survival/9194/

  18 Epley, N., & Whitchurch, E. (2008). Mirror, mirror on the wall: enhancement in self-recognition. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 34 (9): 1159–70.

  19 White, D., Burton, A. L., & Kemp, R. I. (2015). Not looking yourself: The cost of self-selecting photographs for identity verification. British Journal of Psychology.

  20 http://www.psy.unsw.edu.au/news-events/media/2015/07/study-we-dont-look-we-think-we-look

  21 Harris, C. B., Keil, P. G., Sutton, J., Barnier, A. J., & McIlwain, D. J. (2011). We remember, we forget: collaborative remembering in older couples. Discourse Processes, 48 (4): 267–303.

  22 Vredeveldt, A., Hildebrandt, A., & Van Koppen, P. J. (2015). Acknowledge, repeat, rephrase, elaborate: Witnesses can help each other remember more. Memory, 1–14.

  23 Skagerberg, E. M., & Wright, D. B. (2008). The prevalence of co-witnesses and co-witness discussions in real eyewitnesses. Psychology, Crime & Law, 14 (6): 513–21.

  24 Roediger, H. L., & Butler, A. C. (2011). The critical role of retrieval practice in long-term retention. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 15 (1): 20–7.

  Chapter 9

  1 http://archive.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/1995/03/19/questions_prompt_reexamination_of_fells_acres_sexual_abuse_case?pg=full

  2 Referenced in De Young, M. (2004). The Day Care Ritual Abuse Moral Panic. McFarland.

  3 Summit, R. C. (1983). The child sexual abuse accommodation syndrome. Child Abuse & Neglect, 7 (2): 177–93.

  4 London, K., Bruck, M., Wright, D. B., & Ceci, S. J. (2008). Review of the contemporary literature on how children report sexual abuse to others: findings, methodological issues, and implications for forensic interviewers. Memory, 16 (1): 29–47.

  5 http://www.wicca-chat.com/bos/witch/amiraults-trial.txt

  6 https://www.nspcc.org.uk/preventing-abuse/signs-symptoms-effects/

  7 Kendall-Tackett, K. A., Williams, L. M., & Finkelhor, D. (1993). Impact of sexual abuse on children: a review and synthesis of recent empirical studies. Psychological Bulletin, 113 (1): 164–80.

  8 Pazder, L., & Smith, M. (1980). Michelle Remembers. New York: Pocket Books.

  9 Loftus, E. F., & Guyer, M. (2002). Who abused Jane Doe? The hazards of the single case history. Part I. Skeptical Inquirer, 26 (3): 24–32.

  10 Webster, R. (1995). Why Freud Was Wrong: Sin, Science, and Psychoanalysis. Basic
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  11 http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/facts/literature/

  12 http://theconversation.com/explainer-what-are-false-memories-49454

  13 Patihis, L., Ho, L. Y., Tingen, I. W., Lilienfeld, S. O., & Loftus, E. F. (2014). Are the ‘memory wars’ over? A scientist-practitioner gap in beliefs about repressed memory. Psychological Science, 25 (2): 519–30.

  14 Cheit, R. E. (2014). The Witch-Hunt Narrative: Politics, Psychology, and the Sexual Abuse of Children. Oxford University Press.

  15 Hebl, M. R., Brewer, C. L., & Benjamin Jr, L. T. (eds.). (2001). Handbook for Teaching Introductory Psychology, Vol. 2. Psychology Press.

  16 http://www.innocenceproject.org/

  Chapter 10

  1 Hart, J. T. (1965). Memory and the feeling-of-knowing experience. Journal of Educational Psychology, 56 (4): 208–16.

  2 Eakin, D. K., Hertzog, C., & Harris, W. (2014). Age invariance in semantic and episodic metamemory: both younger and older adults provide accurate feeling-of-knowing for names of faces. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 21 (1): 27–51.

  3 Jaeggi, S. M., Buschkuehl, M., Jonides, J., & Perrig, W. J. (2008). Improving fluid intelligence with training on working memory. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105 (19): 6829–33.

  4 Melby-Lervåg, M., & Hulme, C. (2013). Is working memory training effective? A meta-analytic review. Developmental Psychology, 49 (2): 270–291.

  5 Melby-Lervåg, M., & Hulme, C. (2015). There is no convincing evidence that working memory training is effective: A reply to Au et al.(2014) and Karbach and Verhaeghen (2014). Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 1–7.

  6 Foer, J. (2011). Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything. Penguin Books.

  7 Geraci, L., McDaniel, M. A., Miller, T. M., & Hughes, M. L. (2013). The bizarreness effect: evidence for the critical influence of retrieval processes. Memory & Cognition, 41 (8): 1228–37.

  8 Morrison, K. M., Browne, B. L., & Breneiser, J. E. (2012). The effect of imagery instruction on memory. North American Journal of Psychology, 14 (2): 355–64.

  9 https://www.ted.com/talks/elizabeth_loftus_the_fiction_of_memory/transcript?language=en

  Index

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  A

  Abitz, Maja, 16

  acetylcholine, 164

  active system consolidation theory, 117

  advertising, 130-1, 144-5, 254

  AJ, 83-7

  Allan, Kevin, 197

  Allport, Gordon, 154

  Alzheimer’s Disease, xiii, 43, 62, 164

  Ambady, Nalini, 35

  American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), 112

  American Psychological Association, 39

  Amin, Gaurav, 140

  Amirault LeFave, Cheryl, 220-1

  Amirault, Gerald, 218-25

  Amirault, Violet, 220-1

  amnesia, 11-15, 18, 20, 26, 65-8, 89, 99-100, 162-4, 203-6, 214

  and autism, 99-100

  and benzodiazepines, 65-8

  childhood, 11-15, 18, 20, 26

  digital, 203-6, 214

  dissociative, 162-3

  mnestic block syndrome, 163-4

  amygdala, 63

  anisomycin, 63-4

  Aplysia, 61

  Ariely, Dan, 202

  Aristotle, 72-3, 161-2

  arousal, 36-42

  Arzi, Anat, 109

  Asch, Solomon, 200

  association, 71-81, 96, 109, 119, 121, 249-53

  laws of, 72

  asymmetric insight illusion, 141-3

  attention, 107-33

  and baby media, 110-13

  and brainwashing, 129-33

  change blindness, 113-16

  and hypnosis, 123-9

  and sleep, 107, 109, 116-22

  attractiveness, 206-10

  auditory lobe, 68

  autism, 98-101

  autobiographical memory, see episodic memory

  B

  babies

  brain development, 15-18

  impossible memories, 1-3, 18

  media, 110-13

  memory capacity, 3, 13

  backmasking, 132-3

  Bacon Brothers, 196-7

  Balboa Park, San Diego, 27

  Barber, Theodore, 129

  Baron-Cohen, Simon, 101

  Baron, Rick, 87

  Baudry, Michel, 60

  Bauman, Margaret, 99

  Bay State Correctional Center, 220-1

  Baylor University Hankamer, 195

  bees, 53-6, 57

  behaviourism, 53-6, 57, 61-4

  Ben Gurion University, 100

  benzodiazepines, 65-8

  Beracochea, Daniel, 66

  Berkeley, George, 51

  Beyerstein, Barry, xi

  biological stamping, 58-65

  Birt, Angela, 161, 164

  bizarreness effect, 249-53

  Blais, Caroline, 152-3

  blindness, 113-16

  Borenstein, Isaac, 220

  borrowing, 199-200, 213

  Bossen (play), 211

  Boston University, 129

  bottom-up processing, 32-3, 34

  brain, 8-9, 8, 13-18, 26, 39, 53, 56-81, 88-98, 100, 108, 117-19, 163-4, 190-2, 237

  amygdala, 63

  auditory lobe, 68

  biological stamping, 58-65

  brainwaves, 190-2

  calpains, 60, 62, 63

  cortical homunculus, 88

  damage, xiii, 100, 118

  dendrites, 58, 59, 61, 118

  development of, 15-18, 26

  diseases, xiii, 43, 62

  engrams, 70, 75-8, 90, 96, 97, 107, 108, 117, 118, 119

  frontal lobe, 8, 13

  GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid), 66, 164

  glutamate, 117-18

  hippocampus, 13, 14, 70-1, 89-90, 100

  HPA axis, 39

  limbic-prefrontal system, 100

  lobotomies, 9

  long-term potentiation, 60, 62

  mediodorsal nucleus, 16

  minimal-value deletion, 18

  mnestic block syndrome, 163-4

  motor cortex, 88

  neurons, 16, 57-61, 68-71, 88, 96, 105, 117, 190

  nodes, 73-4

  parietal lobe, 8

  parietotemporal cortex, 88

  pineal gland, 56

  place cells, 69

  prefrontal cortex, 9

  prions, 62

  pruning, 16-18, 117, 119

  sensory cortex, 88

  and sleep, 117

  somatosensory cortex, 68

  synapses, 16-17, 59-62, 66-7, 71, 117

  temporal lobes, 88, 89-90

  thalamus, 16

  brain games, 244-7

  Brainerd, Charles, 78

  brainwashing, 129-33

  Brandt, Renee, 224

  Braun, Kathryn, 20

  British Society of Experimental and Clinical Hypnosis (BSECH), 126

  British Society of Medical and Dental Hypnosis (BSMDH), 126

  Brown University, 234

  Brown, Alan, 181, 199-200

  Brown, Roger, 166-9

  Bruck, Maggie, 222

  BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy), 62

  Buehler, Roger, 44

  Bugs Bunny, 21, 25

  bumblebees, 53-6, 57

  Buonomano, Dean, 96

  Burgess, Cheryl and Melissa, 19

  Burnett, Dean, 71

  Buschman, Tim, 190-2

  C

  Cahill, Larry, 36

  Caissie, Murray, 217-18

  calcium, 118

  calpains, 60, 62, 63

  Cambridge Face Memory Test, 149

  Cambridge University, 101

  Caviness, Verne, 16

  cell phones, 193-4

  Chabris, Christopher, 114

  Challen
ger Explosion (1986), 84, 165, 167, 169

  Chan, Jason, 64

  change blindness, 114-16

  channelrhodopsin-2, 70

  Chaplin, Chloe, 135

  Charles Simon, 120

  Charles, Prince of Wales, 21-2

  Chechik, Gal, 18

  Cheit, Ross, 234-5

  childhood, childhood memories, xiii, 1-26, 92, 96, 109-13, 129

  adversity, 26

  amnesia, 11-15, 18, 20, 26

  baby media, 110-13

  brain development, 15-18, 26

  confabulation, 3-4, 6

  earliest memory, 2, 11-12

  eidetic memory, 92

  and emotion, 12-13

  and hypnosis, 19-20, 129

  impossible memories, 3-4, 18-26

  language development, 111-12

  maturation, 6-18

  source confusion, 3, 4

  China, 50-1

  Chittka, Lars, 54-6, 57

  chore wars survey, 139-40

  chronesthesia, 42

  chunking, 10-11, 17

  City University, London, 140

  Clark, Brian, 197

  cognitive ecology, 54

  Cohen, Nelson, 7

  collaborative memory, 210-13

  Collins, Allan, 96

  colour, perception of, 28-31

  Columbia University, 61, 131, 203

  conceptual representations, 115

  confabulation, 3-4, 6, 21

  conformity, 197-8, 200-3

  contiguity, law of, 72

  contrast, law of, 72

  Conway, Bevil, 29, 31

  Conway, Martin, 50

  Cooke, Ed, 248

  Cordi, Maren, 121-2

  Cornell University, 12

  cortical homunculus, 88

  cortisol, 39

  Cotton, Peter, 184

  Cotton, Shelia, 189-90

  Cottoncin, Olivier, 103-4

  Coventry, West Midlands, 22-3

  Cozi, 139

  Crews, Derek, 189

  crime, criminal justice, xiv-xv, 35-6, 40, 65, 130, 135-58, 171-5, 186, 197-8, 203, 217-39, 254-5

  eyewitness testimony, 36, 40, 150, 151-2, 154, 165, 186, 197-8, 203, 212, 217-39, 254

  false memories, 155-8, 217-39

  and groupiness, 203

  guilty until proven innocent, 233-6, 238

  identification, 40, 148-9, 150, 178-9

  interview techniques, 170, 222-5, 235

  and memory hacking, 171-5

  and psychological biases, 136-7, 138, 140-1, 143, 149, 157-8

  sexual abuse, 65, 155-8, 217-39

  and super-recognisers, 148-9

 

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