A growing body of evidence suggests that the information entered into memory is often altered in various ways over time—and these alterations can reduce its accuracy and change its meaning. Such changes fall under two major headings- memory distortion, alterations in what is retained and later recalled, and memory construction, the addition of information that was not actually present. Distortion [...]
The below mentioned article provides notes on human memory. Note # 1. Human Memory - Two Influential Views: Psychologists, like other scientists, often construct models of the processes they study. These models are overviews describing the nature and operation of the processes in question. Following this standard scientific pattern, psychologists have proposed several models of human memory. Here, we'll focus [...]
We generally use memory for very different purposes in our daily lives. Let's see what psychologists have discovered about how memory functions in natural contexts. Three topics are of special interest- repression of emotionally traumatic events, autobiographical memory, and memory for emotional events. Repression: "What's Too Painful to Remember, We Simply Choose to Forget": Do we really do what the [...]
