Memory refers to the capacity to retain and retrieve information, and also to the structures that account for this capacity. When you can not retrieve something or distinguish what you originally heard or experienced it is known as source amnesia. False memories of events or experiences occur when we think about the event many times, it contains a lot of detail in our mind, it is very easy to imagine, and when you can focus …showed first 75 words of 593 total…

…showed last 75 words of 593 total…learned material. Motivated forgetting is forgetting that occurs because of a desire to eliminate awareness of painful, embarrassing, or otherwise unpleasant experiences. Cue-dependant forgetting is the inability to retrieve information stored in memory because of insufficient cues for recall. State-dependant memory is the tendency to remember something when the rememberer is in the same physical or mental state as during the original learning or experience. <Tab/><Tab/>