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Seven Sins of Memory

Transience

Whitney

The decreasing accessibility of memory over time. While a degree of this is normal with aging, decay of or damage to the hippo-campus and temporal lobe can cause extreme forms of it. Schacter's cited as a somewhat facetious example former President Bill Clinton's "convenient lapses of memory" during the Monica Lewinsky investigation. Clinton claimed in the hearings that he sometimes couldn't remember what had happened the previous week.

I have never experienced anything like this to my knowledge .

Persistance

I can relate to this because most of the tragic events I have healed from or I thought I may have , still find a way to linger into my current thoughts.

Unwanted recollections that people can't forget, such as the unrelenting, intrusive memories of post-traumatic stress disorder. An example, said Schacter, is the case of Donnie Moore of the California Angels, who threw the pitch that lost his team the 1986 American League Championship against the Boston Red Sox. Moore fixated on the bad play, said Schacter, "became a tragic prisoner of memory," and eventually committed suicide.

Bias

I'm pretty sure many people overuse this sin when it comes to relationships. Portraying themselves as the victim, if they weren't ,etc.

Retrospective distortions produced by current knowledge and beliefs. Psychologist Michael Ross, PhD, and others have shown that present knowledge, beliefs and feelings skew our memory for past events, said Schacter. For example, research indicates that people currently displeased with a romantic relationship tend to have a disproportionately negative take on past states of the relationship.

Absent

Mindedness

Brown

Lapses of attention and forgetting to do things. This sin operates both when a memory is formed (the encoding stage) and when a memory is accessed (the retrieval stage). Examples, said Schacter, are forgetting where you put your keys or glasses. He noted a particularly famous instance in which cellist Yo-Yo Ma forgot to retrieve his $2.5 million cello from the trunk of a New York City cab.

I have experienced this so many times. Especially when I am on a move and in a hurry to get somewhere! Recently I locked my keys in my car and I swore I had them in my hand . I've even misplaced money only for it to be right under my nose. If I was around people , I would assume someone jugged me. It's funny at times because I have to remind myself to slow down!

Blocking

Learning

Temporary inaccessibility of stored information, such as tip-of-the-tongue syndrome. Schacter recounted the embarrassment of John Prescott, British deputy prime minister, when a reporter asked him how the government was paying for the expensive Millennium Dome. Prescott struggled to find the word "lottery," trying "raffles" instead.

I experience this when I am talking in front of people. Sometimes it seems like my thoughts are forming faster than the actual words that are coming out of my mouth , so I tend to forget a certain word or I know it , but just can't say it.

thermal energy

Suggestibility

2019

Incorporation of misinformation into memory due to leading questions, deception and other causes. Psychologists Elizabeth Loft-us, PhD, and Stephen Cecil, PhD, are among those well-known in this research (see sidebar).

Personally , this sin does not resonate with me. Although, I have seen multiple examples in this show called Criminal Minds , which also include many examples of misattribution .

Misattribution

Misattribution of memories to incorrect sources or believing that you have seen or heard something you haven't. Prominent researchers in this area include Henry L. Roediger III, PhD, and Kathleen McDermott, PhD. An illustration of it, said Schacter, is the rental shop mechanic who thought that an accomplice, known as "John Doe No. 2," had worked with Timothy McVeigh in the Oklahoma City bombing; he thought he'd seen the two of them together in his shop. In fact, the mechanic had encountered John Doe No. 2 alone on a different day.

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