Talk:Misattribution of memory

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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 25 February 2020 and 2 May 2020. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Acfly17.

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Basics

Notice this edit.

Ranges of pages, such as 10–27, and things like Deese–Roediger–McDermott, require an en-dash, not a hyphen.

One does not capitalize an initial letter merely because it's in a section heading. Look around Wikipedia and you'll see this.

This is all in WP:MOS. Michael Hardy (talk) 15:26, 23 March 2013 (UTC)

Source Confusion

Though the premise of source monitoring theory is vaguely mentioned several times throughout the page, source monitoring theory itself is not fully explained. I have added it to the paragraph on source confusion, with a link to the broader topic, so that people can be further educated about the theory. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Islahay (talk • contribs) 14:48, 29 May 2013 (UTC)

Causes of False Memories

In an effort to improve the pages accuracy, I added fuzzy-trace theory, as this is one of the dominant theories of how false memories are formed,. I also combined two of the existing paragraphs, as one was short and a continuation of the previous paragraph. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Islahay (talk • contribs) 15:35, 5 June 2013 (UTC)

You're doing good work. Please keep it up! It would be great to see this article developed to a really high standard. Don't forget to sign your comments with the sign icon or by typing four tildes ~~~~ Cheers, MartinPoulter (talk) 15:54, 5 June 2013 (UTC)

False Memory Syndrome

Hi! Currently, the false memory section under the components of misattribution heading only describes false memory syndrome, which is a very severe and specific case of false memories, rather than false memories as a general concept. Is there somewhere I can move the FMS information so that it doesn't read as a major component of misattribution and rewrite the false memories paragraph? I don't want to remove this information from the page, but it doesn't feel entirely relevant where it is currently located. Acfly17 (talk) 00:24, 15 April 2020 (UTC)

I think that the current placement works well enough, however, changing the example of false memory in the previous paragraph from one of witnessing a crime to an instance of false memory occuring in everyday life might make that distinction clearer. --Aborame (talk) 23:09, 25 April 2020 (UTC)

Potential Edits

I think that this article does a good job of covering misattribution of memory and its components. I think that more clear information could be added about the causes of misattribution. More current information about studies/experiments could also be added. --BethanyWaite (talk) 00:40, 7 May 2020 (UTC)

Deleted Blog as Source

While reading the article, I noticed that one of the sources is a blogspot, and when I clicked the link to the blog, it said that the blog had been removed. I will be removing that source and tagging the paragraph it is used to cite for the issues, but I don’t know enough to rewrite ut. birdn4t0r (talk) 21:48, 6 January 2023 (UTC)

Updating this to say I decided to take a more appropriate course of action and start a talk page discussion on the specific paragraph that seems dubious rather than just deleting a source and running off. birdn4t0r (talk) 22:25, 6 January 2023 (UTC)