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Calling Memory Into Question
Title: Calling Memory Into Question
Category: Science & Technology
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Calling Memory Into Question
Calling Memory Into Question:
A look at False Memory Syndrome
Memory is the mental faculty of retaining and recalling past experiences. A
repressed memory is one that is retained in the subconscious mind, where one is not aware of it but where it can still affect both conscious thoughts and behavior.
When memory is distorted or confabulated, the result can be what has been called the False Memory Syndrome: a condition in which a person's …showed first 75 words of 3446 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 3446 total…very worst in institutionalized
justice on the hunt for child molesters.
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