Question

You are considered to be an expert in false memories, and a local district attorney has therefore requested your expertise on the following case:

On Tuesday, March 6, 2007, a bank was robbed in Slidell, LA. It was just after opening time, 9:04 a.m., and there were barely any customers, when a car arrived and parked in the side parking lot of the bank. Two men came out of the car and walked to the entrance. Both wore dark clothing. Upon entering the bank, they held out guns and asked for the manager. When the manager identified herself, the smaller of the two robbers ordered her to open the safe. Meanwhile, the other robber, a tall, and burley man, walked around holding his gun in his outstretched arm, and threatening the remaining employees and customers. The manager complied and the smaller robber collected all the money and valuables from the safe. After five minutes, the big robber asked if his companion was ready to go. When he was, the two ran back to their car, and drove away.

The district attorney has asked that you create a presentation about false memory and explain how it might influence this case. He asks that you specifically address the following:Discuss any procedures which can increase or reduce the occurrence of false memories when reporting eyewitness events.

Answer 1

False memory is mental and psychological phenomena where person recall something that doesn't happen . Therefore, he described any incident in a falsehood manner.false memory also illusion. It is necessary to reduce false memory specially in eye witness.false memory occurred when people believe they have experience in item or event that actually novel.so major procudure are given below to reduce false memory

Encoding influennce:

One-way in which false memory false memory can reduced to enhance the subsequent and recollection of source specifying information.For instance, allowing individual to repeatedly study and recall the related target words reduce false memory error.

Retrival influennce:

The kind and amonunt of information that is remembered can influennce by several factors.how people are promted or examined their memory. False memory may occurred due recalled large amount of information with in same period of time. So people should remember step by step samll information to reduce false memory.

combined encoding and retrival influennce : the distinctiveness heuristic:

false recognition rate are not influenced not only by how people how people are oriented to examine their memory but also by the strategies that people used to asess or evaluate the remembered information.so we have to delibrately and strategically think to take decision and reduce false memory . Sometime we should take assistance in the light of other people knowledge .we should focus on retrival strategy to reduce false memory .