Memory biases

tendency of people to favor information that confirms their beliefs or hypotheses

memory of events that actually did not happen

Confabulation is a memory error consisting of the production of fabricated, distorted, or misinterpreted memories about oneself or the world. It is generally associated with certain types of brain damage (especially aneurysm in the anterior communicating artery) or a specific subset of dementias. While still an area of ongoing research, the basal forebrain is implicated in the phenomenon of confabulation. People who confabulate present with incorrect memories ranging from subtle inaccuracies to surreal fabrications, and may include confusion or distortion in the temporal framing (timing, seque

Cryptomnesia occurs when a forgotten memory returns without it being recognized as such by the subject, who believes it is something new and original. It is a memory bias whereby a person may falsely recall generating a thought, an idea, a tune, a name, or a joke; they are not deliberately engaging in plagiarism, but are experiencing a memory as if it were a new inspiration.

tendency to perceive past events as more predictable than they actually were at the time

inability of adults to retrieve episodic memories before the age of two to four years

inability to remember important information because of the ease of looking online

psychological phenomenon by which people develop a preference for things merely because they are familiar with them

bias in which a person's subjective confidence in their judgements is reliably greater than the objective accuracy of those judgements

tendency to believe false information when repeated

syndrome

theory that when participants are presented with multiple homogeneous stimuli

the tendency to remember one's choices as better than they actually were

tendency to view past events in a positive (often unrealistic) light

Declinism is the belief that a society or institution is tending towards decline. Particularly, it is the predisposition, caused by cognitive biases such as rosy retrospection, to view the past more favourably and the future more negatively.

temporal displacement of an event whereby people perceive recent events as being more remote than they are and distant events as being more recent than they are

effect where episodic memories become less accurate because of post-event information

expression used in Spain which attests to the social characteristics typical of Francoism that survived in Spanish society after the death of Francisco Franco in 1975

a psychological model of memory

psychological phenomenon

phenomenon in which children are mistakenly left in vehicles

collective forgetting by a group of people

Type of memory distortion

theorized behavior in which people forget unwanted memories

term

phenomenon where memories or information reported by others influences an individual and is incorporated into their memory.