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Psychologist, Daniel Schacter, provides specifics about how fragile long-term memory can be, through the seven sins of memory, which provide seven ways our long term memory can fail us.  

The Seven Sins of Memory

Seven Sins of Memory Reference 

• Transience: decreasing accessibility of memory over time 

• Absent-mindedness: lapses of attention that result in forgetting 

• Blocking: information is present but temporarily accessible

• Misattribution: memories are attributed to an incorrect source

• Suggestibility: implanted memories about things that never occurred

• Bias: current knowledge/beliefs distort memories 

• Persistence: unwanted recollections we cannot forget 

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