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Sometimes our memory is distorted and we cannot remember information when we need it. Mention some of the ways in which our...

      

Sometimes our memory is distorted and we cannot remember information when we need it. Mention some of the ways in which our memory becomes distorted.

  

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Monica
· Transience which refers the loss of information with passage of time.
· Absentmindedness which refers to the problem of the interface between attention and the long term memory
· Blocking which is a failure in retrieval of information stored in the LTM
· Transience, absent mindedness and blocking are as a result of of omission because we miss out on some information in the process of retrieval

· Some distortion are a result of the presence of unwanted information or inaccurate memories
· These includes misattribution which refers to memory ascribed to wrong sources
· Suggestibility which refers to one is led to a false recollection perhaps through leading questions
· Biasness refers to influence of how we are- our beliefs, expectations and desires of what we remember
· Persistence refers to continued unwanted automatic retrieval of the materials we could just soon forgotten

Chatelaine answered the question on June 17, 2021 at 12:29


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