Memory

            While covering the subject Memory we talked about false memories, I did not know that

we could have false memories. I thought that all of our memories were real and that they really

happened. The process of calling up a memory and changing it and saving it the way you

changed it is called constructive processing. I never knew that such a thing could take place, that

you could actually change bits and pieces or even the whole memory. But the thing that I had a

hard time believing the most is that you could have memories that have never even happened to

you, these memories are called pseudo memories. I couldn’t understand how you could believe

something happened when in reality it never did. But if someone keeps telling you that it

happened you start to think that it really did happen. Your brain is telling you that it didn’t

happen but you are telling yourself that it had to happen; so then you could start even putting in

your own input into the story or memory.