Never Judge a book by it's cover....read it first... (57)

Theresa4tgl: Please give me the FACTS...updated scientific FACT that proves EVERYONE forgets. Just last year my father wanted to tell me this garbage.....telling me I wasn't remembering an incident properly and I was just man bashing as he always said since I was a little girl. 3 confirmations confirmed TO him....I remembered it correctly. I have learned though.....many choose not to remember. It's not that they can't......it's because they wanted to control the situation and be right instead do throwing away their false pride and ego that causes people to lie to themselves......justifying their bad behavior......just so they can feel good about themselves.

Now.....again...if science can't factually prove lies.....it can't prove everyone doesn't remember things properly.

Go ahead and reply....laughing at me....good on ya....but I'm done waisting time....

Theresa4tgl: That is probably unless there has been some major trauma...or major head injuries that causes memory loss...

Theresa4tgl: http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/False_memory

And again....SCIENTIFICALLY...it is proven, not all memory is false...if there is Mr Know It All...please share with me your intellectual intelligent recourses ok!? Individual differences in suggestibility

Not all people are equally likely to form false memories. Generally speaking, children and older adults are more suggestible than college students in most false memory paradigms, although there are a few exceptions to this rule. Suggestibility also tends to increase with higher scores on the Dissociative Experiences Scale (DES), a measure of distraction as well as less normal experiences such as hearing voices (Clancy et al. 2002; Eisen et al. 2001; Hyman et al. 1998). Understanding individual differences in suggestibility is an important direction for future research.

Conclusions

Many false memories are byproducts of processes that normally support veridical memory. It is efficient for the perceptual and memory systems to take shortcuts and focus on meaning extraction, since that will suffice in many cases. Similarly, oftentimes relying on familiarity or other external sources is a good strategy, because these can be accurate indicators of the past. However, the cost to these shortcuts is that neither a detailed memory nor a confidently held one is necessarily true. False memories can trick third party observers like juries and lawyers in addition to tricking the rememberer, and they can be very difficult to correct once a person becomes confident about an erroneous memory (often from repeatedly remembering the event a certain way).