Can you think of any ways that this information might be used by medical professionals, educators or mass media outlets for diabolical--or beneficent--ends?
The video below discusses the science of false memory implants.
Friday, June 27, 2014
8.1: Colonizing Memories
Can you think of any ways that this information might be used by medical professionals, educators or mass media outlets for diabolical--or beneficent--ends?
The video below discusses the science of false memory implants.
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Contamination by suggestion is used in many scenarios: by detectives to question suspects and see if they are lying about a crime at hand (a substitute to a polygraph exam), by an abductor to overpower his or her victim through the instilling of a false sense of dependency (also known as the Stockholm Syndrome), or by psychoanalysts to help patients overcome "repressed" memories that have left traumatic impacts on the psyche of the mind. -Elsa M
ReplyDeleteEvidence has shown that suggestion for a young child is often as real as actual experience. Positive suggestions during a relaxed playtime, such as how to treat another person or creature, or facts that need to be learned, especially when set to a melody that the child can sing, are good uses of suggestion. On the other hand, suggestions can be deliberately harmful. For example, if an adult wants to harm or "get back" at another adult, sometimes the first adult will make suggestions to a child about mistreatment by the other. At an early age a suggestion often cannot be discerned from reality. As a result the child can truly believe that the situation occurred. It becomes the child's reality or personal story. This type of suggestion harms both the child and the objective person.
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