PSY270H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Prospective Memory, 6 Years, Hindsight Bias
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Schacter provides some specific about the fragile nature of memory by enumerating seven sins of memory, seven ways in which long-term memory lets us down. The tendency to lose access to information across time, whether through forgetting, interference, or retrieval failure. Everyday memory failures in remembering information and intended activities, probably caused by insufficient attention or superficial, automatic processing during encoding. Temporary retrieval failure or loss of access, such s the tip-of-the-tongue state, in either episodic or semantic memory. Remembering a fact correctly from past experience but attributing it to an incorrect source or content. The tendency to incorporate information provided by others into your own recollection and memory representation. The tendency for knowledge, beliefs, and feelings to distort recollection of previous experiences and to affect current and future judgments and memory. The tendency to remember facts or events, including traumatic memories, that one would rather forget, that is, failure to forget because of intrusive recollections and rumination.
