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False Memories
A false memory is a memory of an event that did not happen or is a distortion of an event that did occur as determined by externally supported facts. Memory can be a very unreliable tool, because we can not only forget types of information, but also, misremember certain events or key facts. Throughout the years there have been many measures to identify and define false memories. One procedure has been used is the Deese-Roediger-McDermott (DRM) procedure (Wright, 2005). The DRM is a procedure that is used to evaluate the levels of disassociation and mood (Wright, 2005). The DRM procedure requires two processes for an individual to create a false memory the generation of the critical lure and mistaking its source and the source monitoring error (Wright, 2005). The source monitoring error relies on the belief that the information taken in by an individual has been skewed in some way during the coding process via a misdirection of a researcher or event (Wright, 2005).......

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