RT info:eu-repo/semantics/bookPart
T1 Cognitive and behavioral approaches to memory distortions: an overview
A1 Ruiz Sánchez, Luis Jorge
A1 Sisto, María
A1 Tortosa Martínez, Begoña María
K1 Psicología
K1 Psychology
K1 Salud
K1 Health
AB The occurrence of false memory phenomena is of practical concern in situationswhere inaccurate recall has severe repercussions, leading to applied research ontopics such as eyewitness testimony (e.g., Loftus & Palmer, 1974) and childhoodsexual abuse (e.g., Ceci & Friedman, 2000; Goodman & Clarke-Stewart, 1991). Whenstudied on a basic level, cognitive psychology typically uses the term “memory” as anoun, referring to a cognitive mental entity that is an informational representation ofan event (e.g. Gallo, 2006). A “true memory” accurately preserves information aboutevents as they happened, whereas a “false memory” is a distorted representation orotherwise does not correspond with events as they occurred. False memories arepurportedly the result of information processing errors, and extrapolation from sucherrors is thought to reveal the nature of the cognitive structures and mechanismsdeemed responsible for remembering (Brainerd & Reyna, 2005). As such, falsememories are of special interest to basic cognitive researchers seeking to developeffectively predictive mechanistic models (e.g., schema theory: Brewer & Treyens,1981).
PB Dykinson
SN 978-84-1122-012-5
YR 2021
FD 2021
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10259/10079
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10259/10079
LA eng
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Burgos
RD 03-abr-2025