It's quite a normal situation to forget things from time to time, it just shows that you are only human and it's natural to become somewhat more forgetful as you age. But the question is How Much Forgetfulness Is Too Much? Also, how can you tell whether your memory lapses are normal forgetfulness and within the scope of normal ageing or something that required urgent medical attention?
Healthy people can experience memory loss or memory distortion at any age. Some of these memory flaws become more predicate as we age.
SOME NORMAL MEMORY LAPSES
Misattribution
Misattribution occurs when you remember something accurately in part, but misattribute some details, like time, place, or person involved. Another example of misattributing when people regularly say they read something in the newspaper when actually a friend told them or they saw it in an advert.
As with several other kinds of memory lapses, misattribution becomes more common with ages. As you age, you absorb fewer details when acquiring information because you are having an issue with concentration and processing information rapidly.
Persistence
Quite a number of people worry about forgetting things. But in some cases, people are tormented by memories they wish they could forget, but they couldn't. The persistence of memories of traumatic events, negative feelings, hurtful past that they wish not to remember.
People suffering from depression are particularly prone to having persistent, disturbing memories, so as people suffering from a post-traumatic stress disorder.
Bias
Even the sharpest memory isn't a flawless snapshot of reality. In your memory, your perceptions are filtered by your personal judgement, experiences, beliefs, prior knowledge, and even your mood at the moment.
Blocking
Imagine a situation where a friend of yours or colleague of your ask you a question and the answer is right on the tip of your tongue, you know that you know it, but at that particular moment, you can just provide the answer. This is perhaps an example of blocking, the temporary inability to retrieve a memory. In many cases, the barrier is a memory similar to the one you're looking for, and you retrieve the wrong one. This competing memory is so intrusive that you can't think of the memory you want.
Absentmindedness
This type of forgetting occurs when you don't pay close attention. You forget where you kept your purse because you didn't focus on where you put it in the first place. At that point, your brain didn't encode the information securely.
Transience
This is the tendency to forget facts or events over time. You are most likely to forget information soon after you learn it. However, memory as the use-it-or-lose-it properties. Although transience might seem like a sign of memory weakness, brain scientists regard it as beneficial because it clears the brain of unused memories, making way for newer or more useful ones.
Healthy people can experience memory loss or memory distortion at any age. Some of these memory flaws become more predicate as we age.
SOME NORMAL MEMORY LAPSES
Misattribution
Misattribution occurs when you remember something accurately in part, but misattribute some details, like time, place, or person involved. Another example of misattributing when people regularly say they read something in the newspaper when actually a friend told them or they saw it in an advert.
As with several other kinds of memory lapses, misattribution becomes more common with ages. As you age, you absorb fewer details when acquiring information because you are having an issue with concentration and processing information rapidly.
Persistence
Quite a number of people worry about forgetting things. But in some cases, people are tormented by memories they wish they could forget, but they couldn't. The persistence of memories of traumatic events, negative feelings, hurtful past that they wish not to remember.
People suffering from depression are particularly prone to having persistent, disturbing memories, so as people suffering from a post-traumatic stress disorder.
Bias
Even the sharpest memory isn't a flawless snapshot of reality. In your memory, your perceptions are filtered by your personal judgement, experiences, beliefs, prior knowledge, and even your mood at the moment.
Blocking
Imagine a situation where a friend of yours or colleague of your ask you a question and the answer is right on the tip of your tongue, you know that you know it, but at that particular moment, you can just provide the answer. This is perhaps an example of blocking, the temporary inability to retrieve a memory. In many cases, the barrier is a memory similar to the one you're looking for, and you retrieve the wrong one. This competing memory is so intrusive that you can't think of the memory you want.
Absentmindedness
This type of forgetting occurs when you don't pay close attention. You forget where you kept your purse because you didn't focus on where you put it in the first place. At that point, your brain didn't encode the information securely.
Transience
This is the tendency to forget facts or events over time. You are most likely to forget information soon after you learn it. However, memory as the use-it-or-lose-it properties. Although transience might seem like a sign of memory weakness, brain scientists regard it as beneficial because it clears the brain of unused memories, making way for newer or more useful ones.
Common Memory Lapses
Reviewed by Ridwan
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May 25, 2018
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Reviewed by Ridwan
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May 25, 2018
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