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· 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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