False Memories

Put another way, although experimental work on the creation of false memories may raise doubt about the validity of long-buried memories, such as repeated trauma, it in no way disproves them. | During the process, individuals may forget the source of the information. This is a classic example of source confusion, in which the content and the source become dissociated. | Of course, because we can implant false childhood memories in some individuals in no way implies that all memories that arise after the suggestion is necessarily false. | False memories are constructed by combining actual memories with the content of suggestions received from others.