{"id":772,"date":"2013-01-04T16:22:58","date_gmt":"2013-01-04T16:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=772"},"modified":"2016-01-01T16:26:02","modified_gmt":"2016-01-01T16:26:02","slug":"piaget-experienced-reality-of-false-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=772","title":{"rendered":"Piaget experienced reality of false memory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"style187\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-773\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/130104Piaget.jpg\" alt=\"130104Piaget\" width=\"120\" height=\"180\" \/>Jan. 4, 2013<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cPsychologist Jean Piaget reported that his earliest memory was of his nurse defending him against a potential kidnapper at age two. He distinctly recalled sitting frightened in the baby carriage while the nurse fought off the man (incurring a scratch on her face in the process), and the police officer chasing away the kidnapper with his short white baton. Piaget was even able to describe the officer\u2019s uniform in detail. His family, relieved that the nurse had prevented his kidnapping, rewarded her with a gold watch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cThirteen years later, the nurse returned the gold watch to the family accompanied by a letter confessing that she had made up the story because she wanted to raise the family\u2019s opinion of her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cPiaget used this false memory to emphasize the role of others\u2019 influences on one\u2019s memories. He noted that the nurse frequently had recounted the story in his presence, and others then had repeated the story in his hearing, thus creating the memories he had adopted as his own.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cPiaget noted that even in his old age those memories persisted as clear events, even though he knew them to be false.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"style173\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 From \u201cThe Encyclopedia of the Brain and Brain Disorders\u201d by Carol Turkington and Joseph Harris (2009)<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">Given this phenomenon of memory, it\u2019s hardly surprising that no child-witness against the Edenton Seven has stepped forward to publicly recant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan. 4, 2013 \u201cPsychologist Jean Piaget reported that his earliest memory was of his nurse defending him against a potential kidnapper at age two. He distinctly recalled sitting frightened in the baby carriage while the nurse fought off the man (incurring a scratch on her face in the process), and the police officer chasing away [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":774,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions\/774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}