Seven Sins Of Memory Research Paper

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Seven different ways we remember things fall under the seven sins of memory, which are stored in our memory. Our memories are not one hundred percent what we think all the time. The things we see, hear, taste, smell and think or even dream can all be changed with one getting confused on daily basics, or something happening too often. You can also have an over occurring memory such as something embarrassing and it keeps playing over in ones mind. Even something someone believe so hard to be true really could just be ones mind being bias.
I am going to be telling you about the seven different sins of memory, the first one starting being Transience, which is forgetting things over time. Such as a person cannot remember the first time one took their vey first steps, or the first time loosing a tooth. Older people tend to have Transience memory lose, as one get older the brain as more memories to hold and so certain ones that are not too important start to fade. Say one was in a car accident the driver hits his head on his hippocampus and temporal lobe this can cause the person to loose an extreme about of memory.
The second sin of memory is
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Another example of this could be that a friend or family member a fact of some sort told someone, so that person goes and tells another group of friends that he read it somewhere or something because its been so long since he or she has heard it and then it turns out the fact was not as true as attended and he gets in some kind a trouble or awkward position because of suggestibility

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