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Direct linkSchacter, Daniel L. – American Psychologist, 2012
Memory serves critical functions in everyday life but is also prone to error. This article examines adaptive constructive processes, which play a functional role in memory and cognition but can also produce distortions, errors, and illusions. The article describes several types of memory errors that are produced by adaptive constructive processes…
Descriptors: Memory, Cognitive Processes, Problem Solving, Simulation
