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False Memories
A false memory is a memory of an event that did not happen or is a distortion of an event that did occur as determined by externally supported facts. Memory can be a very unreliable tool, because we can not only forget types of information, but also, misremember certain events or key facts. Throughout the years there have been many measures to identify and define false memories. One procedure has been used is the Deese-Roediger-McDermott (DRM) procedure (Wright, 2005). The DRM is a procedure that is used to evaluate the levels of disassociation and mood (Wright, 2005). The DRM procedure requires two processes for an individual to create a false memory the generation of the critical lure and mistaking its source and the source monitoring error (Wright, 2005). The source monitoring error relies on the belief that the information taken in by an individual has been skewed in some way during the coding process via a misdirection of a researcher or event (Wright, 2005). The coding process is the time in which we take the stimuli that we are presented with and apply said stimuli to memory (Wright, 2005).   The delinquent information suggested to the participant attributes to the source coding error (Wright, 2005). The model of source monitoring error implies that only errors with the source monitoring process are linked to dissociation. (Wright, 2005) Mood is directly related to false memories, but it is dependent on the specific of the situations (Wright, 2005). False memory was at the forefront of what considered a major American situation 9/11. President George W. Bush has been associated with the false memory phenomena. Dramatic loss of memory, with devastating effects on the sufferer and those around them associated with false memories can also be traumatic for everyone involved; especially if there is no conformity that the memory is false (Wright, 2005). The consequences are intensified when the memory itself is shocking, as in a memory of being...