Memory recall can have inaccurate information {memory, errors} {recall, errors} that cannot have come from guessing or wrong cueing.
Without extra context, minds can make no distinction between mistake in storing memory, recalling memory, or making original perception.
properties: verbal errors
Typical verbal errors sound similar to accurate item.
properties: meaning
Errors can arise from trying to make events meaningful, because meaning is more important than detail. General concept stored with detail can change the detail. Context or assumptions can change memory logically.
memory change
Memory change happens in weak memories. Memory change can happen at storage, when misunderstandings cause coding misrepresentations. Memory change can happen at recall, when inferences override coded representations.
memory decay
For visual situations with attention but no rehearsal, activation loss decreases memory. Forgetting increases with time elapsed. However, people can later remember memories forgotten at one time, so information is still in memory.
recall
Recalling can change unconscious memories.
perception
Perception does not confound units and produces non-contradictory results, with no chimeras. Mind eliminates contradictions preconsciously, before conscious memory.
Memory formation and retrieval can fail with low attention at storage or recall {absent-mindedness}|.
Memory can alter to make events, objects, or scenes consistent, emotionally right, or pleasant {bias, memory}.
Memory retrieval can fail if something else is on the mind {blocking, memory}.
Coding failure {consolidation failure} can decrease memory.
Inability to discriminate {discrimination failure} between two groups, locations, or times that are close together can decrease memory.
Memory failure can be at encoding {encoding deficiency}.
Memory can mix real and imagined events {false memory}| [Loftus and Ketcham, 1994].
Sensory recall can combine different stimulus features {illusory conjuncture}. Features are in different mental regions, and features recombine at recall. Recombination requires attention.
Memory can associate with wrong place, time, situation, or object {misattribution}. Recall can use guessing or associate to wrong memory {source misattribution}. Source misattribution has low probability, because cue must be precise to keep memory coherent.
Memory can be obsessive {persistence, memory}.
Memory failure can happen at retrieval {retrieval failure}.
Memory failure can happen at storage {storage loss}.
Current information {suggestibility}| can change memory.
Memory can decay or fade away {transience}.
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