Following on from Christopher French's investigation i have been looking into false memory creation and Schema Theory.
Misleading information can be provided to subjects to alter their memories of events.
Doctored photos create false memories : Neurophilosophy
Schema memory
-We have a pre-existing 'script' for situations and also a 'blueprint of our expectations of' things like objects and environments. We often draw on it to exist within various situations in society. However, our 'schemas' for what we expect can actually affect what we remember to have been there.
i.e. A study that Professor French mentioned which involved students at a lecture hall being later asked what was in the lecture hall. They relied on their 'schema' for what should be in a lecture hall to list what was in it, and often mentioned things what weren't actually there. This could be incorporated into my research. Below is a description of what schema is.
The concept of a 'schema' is fascinating and it is incredible that we do indeed have scripts for every aspect of our lives. This perhaps is why people can be thrown by things that are unlike those that they've seen before, or if something isn't quite right or up-to their expectations.
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