WHEN MEMORY GOES AWRY

Decay theory proposes that memory fades due to the mere passage of time. Information is
therefore less available for later retrieval as time passes and memory, as well as memory
strength, wears away. When we learn something new, a neurochemical "memory trace" is
created.

Motivated forgetting is a theorized psychological behavior in which people may forget

unwanted memories, either consciously or unconsciously.

Gaslighting is a form of manipulation that seeks to sow seeds of doubt in a targeted individual
or in members of a targeted group, hoping to make them question their own memory,
perception, and sanity.

Amnesia is a deficit in memory caused by brain damage, disease, or psychological

trauma. Amnesiacan also be caused temporarily by the use of various sedatives and hypnotic
drugs. The memory can be either wholly or partially lost due to the extent of damage that was
caused.

Traumatic brain injury (TBI), also known as intracranial injury, occurs when an external
force injures the brain. TBI can be classified based on severity, mechanism (closed or penetrating
head injury), or other features (e.g., occurring in a specific location or over a widespread area). Head
injury is a broader category that may involve damage to other structures such as the scalp and skull.
TBI can result in physical, cognitive, social, emotional, and behavioral symptoms, and outcome can
range from complete recovery to permanent disability or death.
Causes include falls, vehicle collisions, and violence.

A blackout is a temporary condition that affects your memory. It's characterized by a sense of
lost time.Blackouts occur when your body's alcohol levels are high. Alcohol impairs your ability
to form new memories while intoxicated. It doesn't erase memories formed before intoxication.

a wistful desire to return in thought or in fact to a former time in one's life, to one's home or
homeland, or to one's family and friends; a sentimental yearning for the happiness of a former
place or time: anostalgia for his college days. something that elicits or displays nostalgia.
Alzheimer's is the most common form of dementia, a general term for memory loss and other
cognitive abilities serious enough to interfere with daily life. Alzheimer's disease accounts for
60 to 80 percent of dementia cases.

Korsakoff’s syndrome - It main symptoms are anterograde amnesia (inability to form new
memories and to learn new information or tasks) and retrograde amnesia (severe loss of
existing memories), confabulation (invented memories, which are then taken as true due to
gaps in memory), meagre content in conversation, lack of insight and apathy.

A flashback, or involuntary recurrent memory, is a psychological phenomenon in which an

individual has a sudden, usually powerful, re-experiencing of a past experience or elements of a past
experience. These experiences can be happy, sad, exciting, or any other emotion one can
consider.[1] The term is used particularly when the memory is recalled involuntarily, and/or when it is
so intense that the person "relives" the experience, unable to fully recognize it as memory and not
something that is happening in "real time".

PTSD (posttraumatic stress disorder) is a mental health problem that some people develop
after experiencing or witnessing a life-threatening event, like combat, a natural disaster, a car
accident, or sexual assault. It's normal to have upsetting memories, feel on edge, or have
trouble sleeping after this type of event.

A self-serving bias is any cognitive or perceptual process that is distorted by the need to
maintain and enhance self-esteem, or the tendency to perceive oneself in an overly favorable
manner.

Rosy retrospection is the tendency to remember experiences more favorably than they were
experienced. It refers to the human propensity for remembering (or even exaggerating) the
positives from past events and minimizing the negatives.

Confabulation is a memory disturbance in which a person confuses imagined scenarios with

actual memories with no intent to deceive.

Repression, In psychoanalytic theory, the exclusion of distressing memories, thoughts, or

feelings from the conscious mind. Often involving sexual or aggressive urges or painful
childhood memories, these unwanted mental contents are pushed into the unconscious mind.
In memory implantation studies researchers make people believe that they remember an event
that actually never happened.

Memory conformity, also known as social contagion of memory,[not in citation given] refers to a situation in
which one's recollection of a memory influences one person or a group's report of that same
experience

In cognitive psychology, the telescoping effect (ortelescoping bias) refers to the temporal
displacement of an event whereby people perceive recent events as being more remote than
they are and distant events as being more recent than they are.