Psychology: Seven Sins of Memory

The seven sins of memory include transience, blocking, absentmindedness, persistence, misattribution, bias, and suggestibility.

Transience is memory decay over time, blocking is retrieval failure, and absentmindedness is inattentive encoding.

Retrograde amnesia involves loss of past memories, while anterograde amnesia is the inability to form new memories.

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<p>Forgetting the plot of a movie.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It refers to the inability to remember needed information.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It is reduced memory due to failing to pay attention.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The resurgence of unwanted or disturbing memories.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It involves assigning a memory to the wrong source.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It is the influence of current knowledge on memory for past events.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It is altering a memory due to misleading information.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Interference that occurs when prior information inhibits the ability to remember new information.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Interference that occurs when new information inhibits the ability to remember old information.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Transience.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It is the changing of memories over time to align with current beliefs or attitudes.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They are vivid episodic memories for surprising or emotionally significant events.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It refers to memory distortions about the circumstances of a memory.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The false fame effect and the sleeper effect.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A form of misattribution where the source of a known memory is forgotten.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The absence of early episodic memories.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It's when someone believes they have a new idea but instead recall an old idea without attribution.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The development of biased memories from misleading information.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Confirmation bias, police interview methods, and difficulty distinguishing between accurate and inaccurate witnesses.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Imagining events can cause confusion between real and imagined memories, especially in children.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Some claim repressed memories can resurface, but researchers argue little evidence supports that recovered memories are accurate.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>False fame effect.</p> Signup and view all the answers

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<p>Because of false memory, which can lead to unreliable witnesses.</p> Signup and view all the answers