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Investigating A Model Of False Memory Construction: Is Seeing Believing?, Rebecca Bays
Investigating A Model Of False Memory Construction: Is Seeing Believing?, Rebecca Bays
Communication Sciences and Disorders Dissertations
In the current literature review I examine false memory research, including variables that affect memory accuracy, instrumentation, and analyses used to assess false memory construction, as well as possible frameworks accounting for the development of false memories. Do errors in memory occur during encoding of an event or during retrieval of a memory? I discuss two models of false memories, both born from the source-monitoring framework, to highlight the important cognitive processes leading to crucial errors in memory recall. In the study that follows I investigate whether repeated imaginings of an implausible autobiographical event will lead to the creation of …
Moral Imagination In Theory And Practice, Peter Leland Samuelson
Moral Imagination In Theory And Practice, Peter Leland Samuelson
Communication Sciences and Disorders Dissertations
A review of the literature in several domains reveals that moral imagination plays a role in how we deliberate about moral issues and what motivates us to act in a moral way. This study begins by outlining an operational definition of moral imagination based largely on Dewey’s model of dramatic rehearsal (Dewey, 1922), along with an explication of the role of image schemas, metaphor, empathy, and narrative in moral imagination (Johnson, 1993) and an examination of how moral imagination develops through the lifespan. A review of the research of the components of moral imagination is included, especially in the literature …