Question

Frankie is participating in a memory experiment in which a researcher asks him to memorize a list of words. the list includes the words: apple, orange, pear, banana, etc. when frankie is asked to recall the list, the first word he states is fruit, which is not on the list. he believes that there must be a mistake because he is certain he heard the word fruit. what is the reason frankie insists on this false memory? he has faulty retrieval cues. he has retrograde amnesia. his false memory feels as real as true memories and is very persistent. he is hungry, so the word entered his memory.

Answer 1

The reason that Frankie insists on this false memory is because his false memory feels as real as true memories and is very persistent .

Fake memories can feel very tenacious and very realistic. Frankie really convinced himself that he did hear the world because his mistaken memory of hearing the word fruit has entrenched itself in his mind.