Abstract:Creating false memories with words is a research procedure mainly used in psychology. It is based on a high correlation between the probability of remembering-knowing a critical word (the memories of the fact of learning it) and the likelihood of providing this word as an association with a list of words. An unrepresented critical word appears as a memory because it is associated with the words presented to the participants of the study. The falsehood of the memory lies in the fact that the probability of prov… Show more
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