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a memory bias is a cognitive bias that either enhances or impairs the recall of

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Choice-supportive bias   remembering chosen options as having been better than rejected options (Mather, Shafir & Johnson, 2000).  
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Change bias   after an investment of effort in producing change, remembering one's past performance as more different than it actually was (Schacter, 1999).  
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Childhood amnesia   the retention of few memories from before the age of two years.  
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Consistency bias   incorrectly remembering one's past attitudes and behaviour as resembling present attitudes and behaviour.  
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Context effect   that cognition and memory are dependent on context, such that out-of-context memories are more difficult to retrieve than in-context memories (e.g., recall time and accuracy for a work-related memory will be lower at home, and vice versa).  
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Cryptomnesia   a form of misattribution where a memory is mistaken for imagination, because there is no subjective experience of it being a memory.  
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Egocentric bias   recalling the past in a self-serving manner, e.g. remembering one's exam grades as being better than they were, or remembering a caught fish as being bigger than it really was.  
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Hindsight bias   the inclination to see past events as being predictable; also called the "I-knew-it-all-along" effect.  
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Humor effect   that humorous items are more easily remembered than non-humorous ones, which might be explained by the distinctiveness of humor, the increased cognitive processing time to understand the humor, or the emotional arousal caused by the humor.  
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Generation effect (Self-generation effect)   that self-generated information is remembered best. For instance, people are better able to recall memories of statements that they have generated than similar statements generated by others.  
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Illusion-of-truth effect   tendency to identify as true statements those which they have previously heard (even if they cannot consciously remember having heard them), regardless of the actual validity of the statement. IOW likelihood to believe a familiar statement over unfamiliar  
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Lag effect    
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Leveling and Sharpening   memory distortions introduced by loss of details in recollection over time, often concurrent with sharpening/selective recollection of certain details that take on exaggerated significance in relation to details/aspects of experience lost through leveling  
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Levels-of-processing effect   that different methods of encoding information into memory have different levels of effectiveness (Craik & Lockhart, 1972).  
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List-length effect    
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Misinformation effect   that misinformation affects people's reports of their own memory.  
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Misattribution   when information is retained in memory but the source of the memory is forgotten. One of Schacter's (1999) Seven Sins of Memory, Misattribution was divided into Source Confusion, Cryptomnesia and False Recall/False Recognition.  
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Modality effect   that memory recall is higher for the last items of a list when the list items were received via speech than when they were received via writing.  
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Mood congruent memory bias   the improved recall of information congruent with one's current mood.  
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Next-in-line effect   that a person in a group has diminished recall for the words of others who spoke immediately before or after this person.  
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Part-list cueing effect   that being shown some items from a list makes it harder to retrieve the other items (e.g., Slamecka, 1968).  
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Peak-end effect   that people seem to perceive not the sum of an experience but the average of how it was at its peak (e.g. pleasant or unpleasant) and how it ended.  
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Persistence   the unwanted recurrence of memories of a traumatic event.  
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Picture superiority effect   that concepts are much more likely to be remembered experientially if they are presented in picture form than if they are presented in word form.  
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Positivity effect   that older adults favor positive over negative information in their memories.  
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Processing difficulty effect    
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Primacy effect   that the first items on a list show an advantage in memory.  
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Recency effect   that the last items on a list show an advantage in memory.  
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Reminiscence bump   the recalling of more personal events from adolescence and early adulthood than personal events from other lifetime periods (Rubin, Wetzler & Nebes, 1986; Rubin, Rahhal & Poon, 1998).  
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Rosy retrospection   the remembering of the past as having been better than it really was.  
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Serial position effect   that items near the end of a list are the easiest to recall, followed by the items at the beginning of a list; items in the middle are the least likely to be remembered.  
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Self-relevance effect   that memories relating to the self are better recalled than similar information relating to others.  
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Source Confusion   misattributing the source of a memory, e.g. misremembering that one saw an event personally when actually it was seen on television.  
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Spacing effect   that information is better recalled if exposure to it is repeated over a longer span of time.  
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Stereotypical bias   memory distorted towards stereotypes (e.g. racial or gender), e.g. "black-sounding" names being misremembered as names of criminals (Schacter, 1999).  
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Suffix effect   the weakening of the recency effect in the case that an item is appended to the list that the subject is not required to recall (Morton, Crowder & Prussin, 1971).  
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Suggestibility   a form of misattribution where ideas suggested by a questioner are mistaken for memory.  
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Telescoping effect   the tendency to displace recent events backward in time and remote events forward in time, so that recent events appear to be more remote, and remote events, more recent.  
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Testing effect   that frequent testing of material that has been committed to memory improves memory recall.  
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Tip of the tongue phenomenon   inability to recall parts of an item, or related information, but is frustratingly unable to recall the whole item. This is thought to be an instance of "blocking" where multiple similar memories are being recalled and interfere with each other  
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Verbatim effect   that the "gist" of what someone has said is better remembered than the verbatim wording (Poppenk, Walia, Joanisse, Danckert, & Köhler, 2006).  
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Von Restorff effect   that an item that sticks out is more likely to be remembered than other items (von Restorff, 1933).  
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Zeigarnik effect   that uncompleted or interrupted tasks are remembered better than completed ones.  
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