Daniel L. Schacter

Examines what the author terms "common memory vices," including absent-mindedness, transcience, blocking, misattribution, suggestibility, bias, and persistence, applying experimental evidence to discuss such high-visibility cases as the O.J. Simpson trial and President Clinton's grand jury testimony. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

How the Mind Forgets and Remembers

The Seven Sins of Memory

Saima A

FINALLY FINISHED... thank goodness

on the side degree reading, might come in handy for the dissertation but boy was this hard to get through. very academic although should have been expecting that- whoops

7 sins are:
1. Transience (loss of memory over time)
2. Absent-mindedness (forgetting where your car keys are - due to the info never being properly encoded in your memory because you weren't really paying attention)
3. Blocking (inability to retrieve known information such as someone's name, name of a song, etc.)
4. Misattribution (assigning a memory to the wrong source)
5. Suggestibility (implanted memories due to leading questions, comments, or suggestions)
6. Bias (how we unknowingly change our memory of the past to be more consistent with our current beliefs)
7. Persistence (repeated recall of disturbing info or events you would prefer to forget)

The Seven Sins of Memory How the Mind Forgets and Remembers

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