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Sins of commission involve distorted recollection
- Misattribution. This sin is the correct recollection of information but connected to the wrong source. We may even think we are the source or may recall events that never happened.
- Suggestibility. Our memory is vulnerable to misinformation caused by leading questions or deception from other people. This can lead to false memories.
- Bias. Our current beliefs or feelings can retrospectively distort our memory.
- Persistence. We want to forget, but our brain wants to hold on to the memory—for example, trauma, a mistake or an embarrassing moment.
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Managing the negative aspects of a faulty memory
Strategies to mitigate some of the most harmful effects of memory biases:
- Get information soon after an event, when everyone still remembers it.
- Use a prioritised task list.
- Take notes from important events, such as meetings.
- Record important events and mil...
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Memories are often unreliable
Our memory is part of what makes us human. But it's far from perfect.
Psychologists are investigating the seven categories of memory. Three involve forgetting, and four involve a faulty memory. As with many cognitive biases, the first step is awareness.
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Sins of memory: Omission involves forgetting
- Transience. This sin involves forgetting over time. Studies found that nearly 50% of participants had significant errors in their memory of the O.J. Simpson trial verdict after three years.
- Absent-mindedness. We have lapses of attention. We forget ...
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- Existing knowledge and other memories can also interfere with the creation and development of a new memory, causing the recollection of an event to be mis...
The many faces of the memory bias
- Rosy retrospection bias. We often remember the past as having been better than it really was.
- Consistency bias. We wrongly remember our past attitudes and behaviour as similar to our present attitudes and behaviour.
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The benefits of our faulty memory
The limits of our memory serve us well in many respects.
- Limited memories are useful trade-off to allow us to function and survive. We have thousands of memories, for example, of tables. If we recall all the events related to a table, it will create mass confusion w...
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