The seven sins of memory include absent mindness, transcience, blocking, misattribution, suggestibility, and bias. Here are examples and situations of all 7.
Absent Mindness is inattetion to details which lead to encoding failure. A situation of this is misplacing keys. Everyday i always place my keys on my kitchen table. One day when i was in a rush to leave (my friend picked me up so i didnt drive) i set my keys down on an end table in the living room. Since i was in a rush i did not encode that i put my keys in a new place. The next day when i went to school i forgot where i placed my keys.
Transcience is storage decay over time. In this situation it would be like learning information in a previous chapter of a text book. After periods of time you try to remember what all the information that certain chapter contained, and struggle to reunderstand what it is you learned.
Blocking is unable to access stored info. An example of this is meeting a new person and seeing the person a different time and unable to put a name to that persons face you previously met.
Misattribution is confusing the source of information. This situation would be like mistaking from hearing a story from a friend when you really heard the story by reading it from an article or newspaper.
Suggestibility is linger effects of misinformation. An example is if someone asked "Did Bobby push you?" and later the child realizes it was a false memory.
Bias is belief colored recollections. An example of this would be a freind recalling a certain feeling that you have for them such as happiness or excitement.
Persistence is unwanted memories. A situation of this is having nightmares of sharks everytime you go to bed and wanting them to go away.
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