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A Classmate Is Having Trouble Retaining Information from His Psychology

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A classmate is having trouble retaining information from his psychology class lectures.What advice would you give him to improve his listening and information retention?


Definitions:

False Memory

A psychological phenomenon where a person recalls something that did not happen or recalls it differently from the way it actually happened.

Elizabeth Loftus

A cognitive psychologist renowned for her work on the malleability of human memory and the misinformation effect.

Lost At The Mall

A controversial psychological experiment indicating how easy it is to implant false memories, specifically a fabricated story about being lost in a mall as a child.

Depersonalization/Derealization Disorder

A mental disorder in which the individual experiences persistent or recurrent feelings of detachment from one's self (depersonalization) or the surrounding world (derealization).

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