False Memories in Healthy Older Adults

Seyda Eruyar

Abstract
The aim of this paper is to discussed the literature about affect of aging on false memories and explain the retrieval model as an underlying factor. Therefore, it is a mini review which focused on ten related papers in terms of their hypotheses, designs, used methodologies and findings. Although this paper does provide evidence from the literature that indicates the effect of the retrieval processes on false memories in older adults, it will also examine contradictory papers which claim the importance of encoding over the retrieval process. It has also been mentioned about a widely accepted explanation on false memories; the source monitoring framework (SMF) which is a mechanism used to distinguish between real past events and imagined ones.

Keywords: False memories, retrieval model, adults, healthy older adults.