Summary: Response To Andrew Hanner's Source Amnesia

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In response of Andrew Hanner’s Source Amnesia
According to Andrew Hanner, Source Amnesia is fake memories created by multiple memories from different events that could or could have not happened. It can be caused by our brains tricking us. He uses dreams as an example where the event did not happen but the subject believed it to be so. Another example, is we hear stories and we construct our own stories from other people’s events. Next, he defines Déjà vu as the feeling people get when they feel like they have experienced this event before. This familiarity is not caused by an experience but our brains tricking us.

Andrew gives an example of Debra Poole and Stephen Lindsay, who tested preschoolers with an experiment. This experiment started