False Memories

Language is an instrumental part of this world. It is how one can convey meaning, express oneself and create and exist in a culture. This paper explores several published articles on the topic of memory, language and how the two possibly interact in cause the false memories. False memories are the inaccuracies within recall of an event. Memory tends to be a very malleable concept that may have different effects wearing on it. For instance memory can be affected by time, emotions in a language. Language seems to be a strong contributing factor to the manipulation because memories are conveyed and thought about by one's own language. Being aware of the implications that memory can be indeed influenced my wording or gesture individuals could potentially

Simcock and Hayne take a look at children’s language skills and their preverbal memories. A common issue with children, called childhood amnesia is when children are often unable to describe events that happened early on in their development (Simcock & Hayne, 2002). To test this childhood amnesia and its relation to language ability, the experimenters met with children around 2 or 3 years old and showed them how to use a magical shrinking machine, a peculiar device with several steps to create the desire function. Each step was an action that experiments hoped the children would later remember. The steps were repeated several times ‘shrinking’ the object smaller every time (Simcock & Hayne,

People were more likely to choose the transparent picture when the storyline included an absent object. The researchers concluded that linguistic manipulation could affect perception. Admittedly, the lexical information was not the most important in recall and there is an additional affect of visualization on the brain that takes a role in memories. It shows that practices like reading can enforce previously explained information (Vandeberg et al., 2012). Some of the groundwork has been laid out to acknowledge language and wording is important to memories and can make a pivotal point in reinforcement. More research could be done with the reinforcement of wrong information and have participants be responsible in the recollection of the