title: Errors in autobiographical memory.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Psychology Department, Western Washington University, Bellingham 98225, USA. hyman@cc.wwu.edu
authors.forename: I E
authors.initials: IE
authors.lastname: Hyman
authors.forename: E F
authors.initials: EF
authors.lastname: Loftus
mesh_terms: D001290:Attitude; D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D005239:Fear; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D008568:Memory; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D011939:Mental Recall; D010268:Parapsychology; D002666:Psychology, Child; D011586:Psychology, Clinical; D012094:Repression, Psychology