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One interesting aspect of memory is that we can believe we remember something that never actually happened. These types of “memories” are referred to as constructive memories.
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Confabulation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Confabulation is the formation of false memories, perceptions, or beliefs about the self or the environment as a result of neurological or psychological dysfunction. When it is a matter of memory, co...
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We construct our memory of events based on the “tidbits” we can retrieve of the event and combining them with general knowledge and assumptions about the world.
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There are two paths in which knowledge on memory development takes, they include: content knowledge and constructive memory. Content knowledge has a lot in common with one of the strategies discussed earlier, organization strategy or organization of knowledge.
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John Sutton, (2003) 'Constructive Memory and Distributed Cognition: towards an interdisciplinary framework', in Boicho Kokinov and; William Hirst (eds.), Constructive Memory (Sofia: New Bulgarian University), 290-303. Please do send comments: email me.
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Riegler, A. (2003) Memory Ain't No Fridge: A Constructivist Interpretation of Constructive Memory. In: Kokinov, B. and Hirst, W. (eds) Constructive Memory. NBU Series in Cognitive Science: Sofia, pp. 277-289. ... Memory Ain't No Fridge: A Constructivist Interpretation of Constructive Memory...
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Memory is still a terra incognita. Psychology and cognitive science have investigated memory ever since they started ... From what has been explicated so far it follows that a constructive cognitive entity is a system that creates its own world rather than maps structures of reality onto its cognitive substratum.
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