Editing Recall (memory) (section)

===False memories===
{{Main|False memory syndrome}}

False memories result from persistent beliefs, suggestions via authority figures, or statements of false information. Repeated exposure to these stimuli influence the reorganization of a person's memory, affecting its details, or implanting vivid false accounts of an event.<ref name="Steffens">Steffens, M. C., & Mecklenbräuker, S. (2007). False memories: Phenomena, theories, and implications. Zeitschrift für Psychologie, 215(1), 12-24.</ref> This is usually accounted for by source-monitoring error, where a person can recall specific facts, but cannot correctly identify the source of that knowledge because of apparent loss of the association between the [[episodic memory|episodic]] (specific experience, or source) and [[semantic memory|semantic]] (concept-based, or gist) accounts of the stored knowledge. An example of this is [[cryptomnesia]], or inadvertent plagiarism, where one duplicates a work that they have previously encountered believing it to be their original idea.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Defeldre | first1 = A | year = 2005 | title = Inadvertent plagiarism in everyday life | journal = Applied Cognitive Psychology | volume = 19 | issue = 8| pages = 1033–1040 | doi = 10.1002/acp.1129 }}</ref> False memories can also be accounted for by the [[generation effect]], which is an observable phenomenon where repeated exposure to a belief, suggestion, or false information is better remembered with each subsequent generation. This can be seen with the [[misinformation effect]], where an eye-witness account of an event can be influenced by a bystander account of the same event, or by suggestion via an authority figure. It is also believed to influence the recovery of repressed shocking or abusive memories in patients under hypnosis, where the recovered memory, although possibly a vivid account, could be entirely false, or have specific details influenced as the result of persistent suggestion by the therapist.<ref name="Steffens"/>