Errors in autobiographical memory.

نویسندگان

  • I E Hyman
  • E F Loftus
چکیده

Memory is always constructive. People create the past based on the information that remains in memory, their general knowledge, and the social demands of the retrieval situation. Thus, memories will often contain some small errors and occasionally some large errors. In this article, we describe several different types of memory errors and consider how these errors may influence therapy.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Clinical psychology review

دوره 18 8  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1998