hfdst 6: malingering and crime related amnesia Flashcards
Amnesia for violent crime
organic amnesia
dissociative amnesia
redouts
organic amnesia
vb head injury
drug intoxication
–> blood intoxication not really an explanation for memory loss
dissociative amnesia
memory loss due to stresfull and traumatic nature
redouts
passion crime, but cant remember
mismatch encoding VS retrieval (ophalen)
ME: high arousal–> memory performance low
simulated amnesia
malingering
malingering
Malingering: Deliberate or intentional falsification of a pathology, either
by fully fabricating or exaggerating complaints, driven by a potential
external incentive
= opzettelijk produceren van valse/ sterk overdreven psychische symptomen
Brunelli-cannella case
man deed zich voor als iemand anders en zei dat hij leed aan memory loss door woI
Rudolph Heiss
deed alsof hij niks meer wist van de holocaust
lying in legal context
false denials
feigned amnesia
fabrication
false denials: liar denies that the event has acutally occured
feigned amnesia: liar simulates to not remember the event
fabrication: liar (self)generates a false account or false details of the event
cognitive resources
Resources of self-control ability that allow to perform everyday activities and to execute cognitive processes
fals denials
low cognitive resources
–> omissions
lage cognitieve vermogen (kennisvermogen)
valse ontkenningen
–> weglating
geveinsde geheugen verlies
- distortions: vervorming
- commissions: geheugenfouten