Theories about memory

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Here are academic theories about how we make sense of the world, inferring meaning.

• Availability Heuristic: recent events seem more likely.
• Choice-supportive bias: Distorting memories to make decisions seem good.
• Counterfactual Thinking: We can change our own memories.
• False Memory Syndrome: We can create memories that are false.
• False Recognition: Words can change what we remember.
• Hindsight Bias: we pretend we remembered everything.
• Imagined Memory: Is not as detailed and sensory as  real memory.
• Mood memory: We recall things that match our current mood.
• Network Theory: Our minds have linked nodes of two types: semantic and affective.
• Primacy Effect: we remember what happened first.
• Recency Effect: we remember recent stuff.
• Schema: used to interpret memories.
• Von Restorff Effect: we remember stuff that stands out.

See also

Theories about meaning, Memory