Describe false memory and false memory experiments.

The term false memory was first coined in 1975 by American psychologist Elizabeth Loftus and her colleagues. Since then, many different types of experiments have been conducted to better understand how false memories form and why they persist even after being corrected with accurate information. These experiments typically involve introducing participants to some type of misinformation (e.g., incorrect facts about people or events) before asking them questions about it—often multiple times over a period of time—in order to see if their answers become more inaccurate as they forget details along the way or develop new ones based on external cues presented to them during questioning (a phenomenon known as “memory reconfiguration”).