False memory: Remembering what you don’t remember

Pages:299-301
Subhash Meena and Astha Kumari (Department of Psychology, Vasanta College for Women, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh )

This review paper aims to study false memory extensively and with a profound sense of attention and underlies the origin of false memories ranging from the initial to the recent most studies and researches of the topic. The information has been clubbed through a thorough revision and analysis of the topic – related researches and several other journals. The research aims at pointing to a unanimous and authentic understanding of the concept with the help of the amalgamation of the studies so far. False memory, being one amongst several psychological phenomenons, has always been a topic of interest to researchers. The researchers so far have generated an idea that it can lead people to remember their past in different ways, when this sort of distortion occurs people are sometimes confident in their distorted or false memories often go on to describe psuedo memories in substantial details.