Topic > false memories and eyewitness testimony - 1508

False memories are essentially unintentional human errors or a state of nonfactual creativity; which results in people declaring memories of events and situations that did not occur in the reality of their lives. If they were not involuntary errors they would be deceptions, which have a different purpose, morality and legality. False memories have no authenticity, reality, or legitimacy in the subject's real life. However they may not be complete false memories: they are more likely to be a combination of subjugation of previous memory signals; or imaginative inventive production, activated and initiated by the origin of an additive external scenario as a suggestion, indicator or sign, which merges into memory recall. Thus “false memories” are a genuine but inaccurate memory of experimental data or the memory of authentic events; both have rudiments of accuracy and imprecision in their transitive attention, giving most "false memories" a bias. In an episodic sense, that is, the category of long-term memory that involves the memory of a specific event, as in the case of 'Eyewitness testimony'; but which also recalls the situation and experience formulated around time and place: these are two separate processes, a dual theory of memory and familiarity, (Yonelinas, AP 2002 p441) which asserts that this is best explained by the scenario of identifying a person (familiarity) but also have an inability to remember who the person is or when they met them, an amaurosis of (recollection). According to (Gardiner 2002) he observes that while episodic memory is autonoetic, that is, it has the ability to place us in the past, it also has noticism, it has an intuitive knowing that works towards meaning and purpose, a subjective placing of memory. In any case episodic there