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A 3 page research paper that reviews literature on memory in order to address specific questions pertaining to why manager at a company would recall events in the company's past differently. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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the first. How can you ask questions to minimize false memories? Articles that were collected for an exhibit on memory that was held from May 1998 to January
1999 at the San Franciscos Exploratorium Museum remain online (Exploratorium, 1999). One of the articles on the site, i.e., Murphy and Doherty (1999), describes the problem of false memories. These
scholars explain how memory is associative. The authors prove this by having readers perform an experiment that demonstrates how false memories are formed due to associations. Jean Piaget, the
famous Swiss psychologist, recounts that he firmly believed until he was fifteen that he remembered an incident where a man tried to kidnap him when he was a baby (Murphy
and Doherty, 1999). He never doubted this memory, as it was rich in detail, but, when he was fifteen, his nurse confessed that she had fabricated the story. Piaget concluded
that the memory was based on hearing the story as a child (Murphy and Doherty, 1999). Research conducted by Elizabeth Loftus has shown that how questions are worded can
substantially influence the response of a witness ("All about," n.d.). For example, substituting the word "smashed" for "contacted" when asking the speed of two cars that the witness saw collide
resulted in witnesses estimating a higher average speed ("All about," n.d.). This suggests that the word "smashed" connoted a higher speed, which indicates how this was a leading question. Loftus
performed this experiment with her students and her description of the results confirms this interpretation. In fact, the students who were asked to estimate cars colliding in a film,
using the words "smashing into each other," were much more likely to also remember seeing broken glass, although no such glass existed in the film (Murphy and Doherty, 1999). In
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