the change is minor, each time we recall a memory we are recreating it and mixing it slightly with other memories.
ie: If your memory of your mom is in the kitchen cooking wearing her orange house coat, but on the day you came home from getting beat up at school( super emtional, so a much stronger created memory) she wasnt wearing the housecoat, your brain in recreating the memory years later might have her wearing the orange housecoat. Small , slight changes, each time.
Captain_Humanist t1_iwc0rfg wrote
Reply to Scientists say memory is prone to change each time we recall. How accurate are our childhood memories actually? by PrestigiousClient655
the change is minor, each time we recall a memory we are recreating it and mixing it slightly with other memories.
ie: If your memory of your mom is in the kitchen cooking wearing her orange house coat, but on the day you came home from getting beat up at school( super emtional, so a much stronger created memory) she wasnt wearing the housecoat, your brain in recreating the memory years later might have her wearing the orange housecoat. Small , slight changes, each time.
Make sense?