The Seven Sins of Memory
It is not unusual for a person’s memory to fail them. These failures can typically be categorized into seven different sins, which Schacter (1999) created. The seven sins are transience, absentmindedness, blocking, misattribution, suggestibility, bias, and persistence. The first three types of sin deal with forgetting, the next three indicate types of exaggeration, and the last sin has to do with memories that are hard to forget. These sins occur often in daily life, and they happen to almost everyone.
The first sin, transience, is forgetting memories over time. For the most part, this is caused by aging, which is normal, but severe cases can be caused by the damage of the hippocampus and temporal lobe (Schacter, 1999). Transience can happen over a long period of time, such as years, but it can also happen in a matter of seconds. An example of transience that happens over a long period of time is when a childhood memory slowly becomes vaguer until it is forgotten. When someone tells someone their name when they are introduced, and the next minute they forgot it is an example of transience over a short time period.
The second sin is absentmindedness, which is when someone forgets to do something. This can be caused by not paying enough attention during the encoding or retrieval process (Schacter, 1999). I have been at fault of this many times, and I have to keep a planner to keep track of everything I have to do. Examples of this sin are when a student forgets to do homework for class, or something as simple as someone forgetting where they put their cell phone.
The next sin, blocking, also deals with forgetting. This is when someone momentarily cannot remember something, and it is also called the tip...
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...ome home from the war who suffer from PTSD. Schacter (1999) states, “Recent PET studies of patients with PTSD have revealed activation in a variety of brain regions previously implicated in fear and anxiety, including the amygdala…” (p. 18).This shows that persistence is largely influenced by emotions.
These seven sins of memory are going to occur to most people because the human brain and a person’s memory are not perfect. It is interesting though to figure out where in the brain these failures happen and what causes them.
References
Schacter, D. L. (1999). The seven sins of memory: Insights from psychology and cognitive neuroscience. American Psychologist,54(3), 182-203. doi:10.1037/0003-066X.54.3.182
Murray B. (2003, October). The seven sins of memory. Monitor on Psychology, 34(9). Retrieved from http://www.apa.org/monitor/oct03/sins.aspx
Roediger III, H. L., Watson, J. M., McDermott, K. B., & Gallo, D. A. (2001). Factors that determine false recall: A multiple regression analysis. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 8(3), 385-407.
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