Question

Forgetting anything good that happened on your trip to France because you just broke up with your French fiancée and now can't bear the thought of anything French is a good example of:________ Memories are distorted by your current belief system.
A) bias
B) blocking
C) suggestibility
D) transience

Answer 1

Answer: Option A. Bias memories

Explanation:

Bias memories are distorted by our current belief system. A vast variety of factors can influence how well we remember, or don't remember, certain events. These are called memory biases. Memory biases can also affect how quickly you're able to recall something, while certain types of biases may actually alter some of your memories. Memory biases may either enhance or impair the recall of memory, or they may alter the content of what we report remembering.There are many memory biases including the humor effect, positivity effect and the generation effect.