Research Paper On Memory Reconstruction

Memory reconstruction is the idea of people's memories being reconstructed as they get older, subconsciously using their life experiences and information they have obtained to patch up missing pieces of a certain memory. From there they genuinely believe and remember it like that, even if it’s not one hundred percent true. Memory can also be shaped by self justification. Reconstructing your memory yourself to justify what you did and make you look like a better person. Once you keep remembering and telling that memory the way you changed it, it becomes true to you and you only remember it like that. This can happen even with small memories such as recalling and/or retelling a story about someone being rude to you and adding more to it so it …show more content…
What she comes to realize though is that her memory of him being the one who stole it and blamed it on her could’ve been reconstructed by another memory of someone suggesting that he may have done that. A real example of memory reconstruction to criminal justices could be someone thinking they remember someone else stealing an item or something of that sort from them and the person thinking they remember who did it years later. If they didn’t know who did the crime when it happened but assumed it was this one specific person years later they might remember it as that. Their brain will use that information of assuming the person who did the crime and create a logical story of which they believe actually happened. When try and recall the memory years later, they’ll remember it “exactly” that that specific person stole it and that they may have “seen” them do it since their brain is putting in logical missing pieces to the memory and subconsciously adding to