Cognitive Psychology

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Cognitive Psychology

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Cognitive Psychology

Memory plays a significant and pervasive role in the daily lives of human beings . Most of the time , people rely on their memories in to carry out daily tasks such as recollecting events , remembering things that they like or dislike , recalling appointments and errands , and gaining new knowledge for specific purposes . However , there are many instances when people take memory for granted until such time that forgetting and distortion takes place , leading

humans to trouble . The errors in human memory has gained wide acknowledgement over time , and in this regard , such perspective has eventually occupied a certain area within the society , most especially for a certain sector of population As the public becomes more aware of the horrors of memory malfunctions the prospect of further understanding the phenomena is also increasing in to develop broad understanding of the said view (Schacter 2002 . Hence , it is an imperative to discuss the malfunctions of human memory which according to David Schacter (2002 ) can be divided into seven fundamental transgressions or sins , [which are] transience absent-mindedness , blocking , misattribution , suggestibility , bias and persistence (p . 4 . Much like the traditionally known seven deadly sins , the sins of the memory frequently take place in a human 's daily life and can cause serious trouble (Schacter , 2002

The first three sins which are transience , absent-mindedness , and blocking are known as the sins of omission , wherein human memory fails to get...