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Personal Narrative: Long-Term Memory

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This story and our readings made me question how genuine my own memories are! So many times I am 100% confident about recalling something that happened or was said, but now I feel unnerved about the possibility I could of been wrong. If I was in her shoes I would of felt awful for what I did and if I was convicted for something I did not do I would feel extraordinarily angry. It seems almost impossible that they could be friends after what happened. What I learned from this video in relation to the book is that memories are not like photographs or videos, but change over time. Basically, we take encoded long-term memory from our mind in attempts to reconstruct it and its not always accurate. If there are blanks in our memory, we may try
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