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13 Post author: gworley 06 July 2009 03:16PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 13 June 2014 08:06:10AM -2 points [-]

This happened in the past. What makes you think its such a good idea to represent it as reality now?

"In earlier experiments using interactive computer animation with healthy subjects, it was found that displaying compulsive-like repeated checking behavior affects memory. That is, checking does not alter actual memory accuracy, but it does affect ‘meta-memory’: as checking continues, recollections are experienced as less vivid and less detailed while confidence in memory is undermined. This procedure provides a model of OCD checking and suggests that checking is a counterproductive strategy to reduce memory distrust. The present experiment was carried out to specify the phenomenological quality of memory distrust after checking and to see if repeated checking produces a shift in the memory source that is used to decide about the outcome of checking: from ‘remembering’ to ‘knowing’ (Tulving, 1985)."