How the Mind works

In this Book, Daniel Schacter claims that there are seven reasons why memories malfunction. They are transience, absent mindedness, blocking, misattribution, suggestibility, bias, and persistence. Transience, absent mindedness, and blocking are omissions: we fail to bring to mind a desried fact, event, or idea. Transince is a basic feature of memory, and the reason for many memory problems. Absent mindedness involves a breakdown at the interface between attention and memory. Blocking stops or slows down the process of trying to retrieve a certain memory. The next 4 reasons for memories malfunctioning is misattribution, suggestibility, bias, and persistence. All of those involve some form of memory that is present but is either incorrect or unwanted. These ideas are connected to how the mind works and why some memories are forgotten because it describes the 7 main problems for why memories malfunction.

• There are 7 main problems or issues as to why memories malfunction. 
• Names of people and places are probably the most easily blocked memories.
• The forces of persistence is the most effective after traumatic experiences.
• The older people get the worse their memories get.
• Human brain is the most complex object in the entire universe. 
•   Suggestability in memory refers to a persons tendency to incorporate misleading information from sources exteranly.
• Suggestability is closely related to misattribution.