WHY ARE OUR MEMORIES LIABLE TO DISTORTION? NAME: EMMA BOSWORTH LECTURER: DR JIMMIE THOMSON CLASS: PERCEPTION AND COGNITION S.I.D: 9912592 Herman Ebbinghaus (1885) wrote about memory and addressed issues such as how do we remember some things and apparently not others. He distinguishes a group of mental states which ‘once present in consciousness return to it with apparent spontaneity and without any act of the will; that is, they are reproduced involuntarily….as more exact …showed first 75 words of 1057 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1057 total…you were wearing that might help you decide whether the remembered situations came from the same date or different ones. The basic problem is that we may retrieve only partial information and we want to integrate them into a remembering of a single event. In addition, sometimes we use our knowledge to augment what we remember, leading to other types of misrememberings. This issue is best seen in the context of schema-related retrieval. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**