Oscar Wild False Memory

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False memories What is a false memory? How the false memory works? And where is it from? Before answering to those questions, we should firstly start by explaining what is a memory. According to the poet-essayist Oscar Wild, “Memory is the diary that we all carry about us”. Defined by a cognitive psychologist Margaret W.Maltin as the process of retaining information over the time or by other as the human ability to use our past experience to determine our future path, the memory involves three distinct processes. The encoding which allows the transformation of the information into the format that can be stored in memory, the storage that helps to maintain that information and final the retrieval stage, which occurs when information stored in

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