False memory debate
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- Created on: 21-04-15 19:14
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- False Memory Debate
- Key Points
- Links to poor interviewing techniques, suggestive therapeutic methods and harsh interrogation
- Freudian psychologists claims traumatic experiences can be repressed, forgotten and recovered during therapy
- The idea of repression of traumatic events directly contradicts the idea of flashbulb memories
- Williams
- 128 female participants- sexually abused as children- interviewed 17 years later
- 38% denied abuse; was it due to denial/ repression or due to the stigma and embarasment
- Loftus et al
- Asked p's about childhood events, one of them being false
- 6/24 participants reported remembering the false event and gave extra details
- Creation of false memory
- Inbau's 9 Steps Of Interrogation
- 1. Tell the suspect you think they are guilty
- 2. Offer them a chance to shift the blame, offer possible suggestions & show sympathy to make it easier for suspect to admit guilt
- 3. Never allow suspect to deny guilt
- 4. If suspect gives reasons why they couldnt be guilty, move them towards a confession or ignore them until they stop trying
- 5. Stay close, maintain eye contact and use first names only
- 6. When the suspect becomes quieter offer them alternatives (e.g. confess and you might not go to jail. If they cry, infer guilt
- 7. Give 2 choices of why the crime was committed (socially acceptable reason & less socially acceptable 1). Either why they must admit guilt
- 8. Make them admit guilt in front of witnesses
- 9. Make them sign a confession
- 8. Make them admit guilt in front of witnesses
- 7. Give 2 choices of why the crime was committed (socially acceptable reason & less socially acceptable 1). Either why they must admit guilt
- 6. When the suspect becomes quieter offer them alternatives (e.g. confess and you might not go to jail. If they cry, infer guilt
- 5. Stay close, maintain eye contact and use first names only
- 4. If suspect gives reasons why they couldnt be guilty, move them towards a confession or ignore them until they stop trying
- 3. Never allow suspect to deny guilt
- 2. Offer them a chance to shift the blame, offer possible suggestions & show sympathy to make it easier for suspect to admit guilt
- There is no way to deny anything and so they are coerced into admitting
- 1. Tell the suspect you think they are guilty
- Causes Of Coerced False Confessions
- Memories are fragile
- Memories are susceptable to suggestion
- False memories are easily created
- Key Points
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