paramnesia

Question 1

What is Paramnesia?

Answer 1

term used to describe QUALITATIVE disorders in memory where fantasy and reality are confused

Question 2

Emil Kraeplin

Answer 2

paramnesia

Question 3

Deja Vu

Answer 3

The experience of feeling that one has witnessed or experienced a new situation before
(You have never been there before but CAN recognise it)

Question 4

Jamais Vu

Answer 4

The experience of being unfamiliar with a person or situation that is actually very familiar
(You’ve been there before but CAN’T recognise it)

Question 5

Confabulation

Answer 5

The unconscious filling in of gaps in the memory by events which never took place

Question 6

reduplicative amnesia

Answer 6

delusion that a place has been duplicated
- subset of delusional misidentification syndrome 
•	Capgras delusion
•	The Fregoli delusion
•	Intermetamorphosis
•	Subjective doubles
•	Reduplicative paramnesia
•	Mirrored self
•	Delusional companions
•	Clonal pluralisation of the self

Question 7

types of reduplicative paramnesia

Answer 7

1) Place reduplication- belief 2 places with identical features exist simultaneously- but geographically distant
2) Chimeric assimilation- belief that 2 places are combined-
3) extravagant spatial localisation- belief that current location is actually somewhere else, usually location is familiar.

Question 8

retrospective falsification

Answer 8

The process of distorting a memory

Question 9

cryptomnesia

Answer 9

This is characterised by having a thought without realising you have had the thought before (for example, some plagiarists claim they are unaware that they were recounting other peoples work)