All of these fallibilities of memory can have real-world impacts

All of these fallibilities of memory can have real-world impacts.If police interrogations use leading questions with eye witnesses or suspects,suggestibility could result in incorrect identifications or unreliable confessions.Even in the absence of leading questions,
misattribution can lead to inaccurate eyewitness testimony.In a courtroom,if a judge rules a piece of evidence inadmissible and tells jurors to disregard it,they may not be able to do so.In a medical setting, if a patient seeks a second opinion and the second physician is aware of the first one’s diagnosis,that knowledge may bias their conclusion.Our memories are not ironclad representations of reality,but subjective perceptions.And there’s not necessarily anything wrong with that—he problems arise when we treat memory as fact,rather than accepting this fundamental truth about the nature of our recollections.