You are basically saying if a person doesn't have a mental illness or disorder, their recollection must be assumed to be correct. That's baffling to me.
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The Reality
Memory doesn’t record our experiences like a video camera. It creates stories based on those experiences. The stories are sometimes uncannily accurate, sometimes completely fictional, and often a mixture of the two; and they can change to suit the situation. Eyewitness testimony is a potent form of evidence for convicting the accused, but it is subject to unconscious memory distortions and biases even among the most confident of witnesses. So memory can be remarkably accurate or remarkably inaccurate. Without objective evidence, the two are indistinguishable.
Related Myths
- People won’t confess to a crime they did not commit.
- Flashbulb memories, vivid and emotionally compelling memories of the circumstances of learning about a subjectively important event, are more accurately remembered than mundane memories.
- Accurate memories can be recovered or enhanced through hypnosis
- We repress traumatic childhood memories but these memories can be recovered through therapy and they should be taken as valid and accurate (see the lesson plan on this myth.)
- Lie detector tests reliably detect deception
- Children make good eyewitnesses
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https://www.psychologicalscience.org...-evidence.html
I don't think there are any shortage of studies done on this. I'm not going to do a literature dump.