I can absolutely state I was never lost in a mall because there were no malls when I was a child. We had May Co. and it was me running around the store and my mom freaking out.
Morgan below illustrates the importance of memory research and how one's selective attention can lead people to come away with a disturbingly ignorant level of understanding about her work
Dr. Loftus was sexually abused as a child. That rapist was prosecuted. Loftus always remembered what happened to her. However, I believe that her experiences have led her to doubt the veracity of the claims of people who say they forgot memories of abuse. Such people suffer, first, from the initial trauma, and then they forget those memories, usually due to either the neglect and emotional abuse which came after the abuse (to cover it up, usually because the abuser is still around), and/or injuries to the head or deprivations of oxygen during the abuse (which can increase the likelihood of brain damage, leading to memory loss). The term "False Memory Syndrome" was coined by a CHILD RAPIST, Dr. Peter Freyd. He coined this term, and founded the False Memory Syndrome Foundation, specifically in order to discredit his own daughter's claims that he raped her. Jennifer Freyd became a psychologist and has written books about this. Recovered memories are not "false memories". The 1984 Illinois Supreme Court case Johnson v. Johnson recognized two classes of abuse victims: people who always remembered the abuse (like Dr. Loftus) and people who forgot the abuse and then recovered memories. Not all claims of recovered memories are false. Watch the 2008 documentary “Flashback”
In Lofthus's book, she said she had a repressed memory herself and admits that it does happen. I remembered part of my abuse and then remembered more later. I backed up my memories with evidence I found about my abuser with evidence from the internet long after I told.
I think you are missing the point of her research. She isn't saying that people did not get abused, she is saying that a person's memory can be manipulated to remember things that did not happen, or remember them incompletely - with some variation of the actual event. There is no question that people are abused. There is also no question that our memories are malleable, and easily manipulated - which is documented through voluminous studies over the last 30 years. Her work on false memories shifted long ago to other cognitive processes of memory like disinformation, anchoring effects, continued information effect theory and many others. You should read her studies and form your perspective from the evidence and not emotions. You can be factually accurate with your position, and she can be too.
@@sr2291 the therapists are there to gaslight rather than help. That IS the sad reality. Especially with horrendous abuse like what a targeted individual goes through. I mean just look at the name.. therapist... leave a space halfway through and what does it say, yt wouldn't let my comment stay up.
People like the cia are able to and do go into our minds and edit the memory and plant intrusive thoughts too. So yep, just like a wikipedia propaganda page.
probably is a cia bot. That's basically what the psychologists are, trained gaslighters and smearers of the abused. The worse the abuse the more guaranteed and smear and gaslight.
I can absolutely state I was never lost in a mall because there were no malls when I was a child. We had May Co. and it was me running around the store and my mom freaking out.
Morgan below illustrates the importance of memory research and how one's selective attention can lead people to come away with a disturbingly ignorant level of understanding about her work
Dr. Loftus was sexually abused as a child. That rapist was prosecuted. Loftus always remembered what happened to her. However, I believe that her experiences have led her to doubt the veracity of the claims of people who say they forgot memories of abuse.
Such people suffer, first, from the initial trauma, and then they forget those memories, usually due to either the neglect and emotional abuse which came after the abuse (to cover it up, usually because the abuser is still around), and/or injuries to the head or deprivations of oxygen during the abuse (which can increase the likelihood of brain damage, leading to memory loss).
The term "False Memory Syndrome" was coined by a CHILD RAPIST, Dr. Peter Freyd. He coined this term, and founded the False Memory Syndrome Foundation, specifically in order to discredit his own daughter's claims that he raped her. Jennifer Freyd became a psychologist and has written books about this.
Recovered memories are not "false memories". The 1984 Illinois Supreme Court case Johnson v. Johnson recognized two classes of abuse victims: people who always remembered the abuse (like Dr. Loftus) and people who forgot the abuse and then recovered memories.
Not all claims of recovered memories are false. Watch the 2008 documentary “Flashback”
In Lofthus's book, she said she had a repressed memory herself and admits that it does happen. I remembered part of my abuse and then remembered more later. I backed up my memories with evidence I found about my abuser with evidence from the internet long after I told.
I think you are missing the point of her research. She isn't saying that people did not get abused, she is saying that a person's memory can be manipulated to remember things that did not happen, or remember them incompletely - with some variation of the actual event. There is no question that people are abused. There is also no question that our memories are malleable, and easily manipulated - which is documented through voluminous studies over the last 30 years. Her work on false memories shifted long ago to other cognitive processes of memory like disinformation, anchoring effects, continued information effect theory and many others. You should read her studies and form your perspective from the evidence and not emotions. You can be factually accurate with your position, and she can be too.
@@jgibbs6159 What if the abused person never got therapy?
@@sr2291 the therapists are there to gaslight rather than help. That IS the sad reality. Especially with horrendous abuse like what a targeted individual goes through. I mean just look at the name.. therapist... leave a space halfway through and what does it say, yt wouldn't let my comment stay up.
It doesn't really add up to me this false memory stuff saying to people they can't know what is real and what isn't is going to terrify anybody
People like the cia are able to and do go into our minds and edit the memory and plant intrusive thoughts too. So yep, just like a wikipedia propaganda page.
She just repeats herself like a bot.
probably is a cia bot. That's basically what the psychologists are, trained gaslighters and smearers of the abused. The worse the abuse the more guaranteed and smear and gaslight.