Which of these statements best reflects your view of how human memory works?
1.Everything we learn is permanently stored in the mind, although sometimes particular details are not accessible. With hypnosis, or other special techniques, these inaccessible details could eventually be recovered.
2.Some details that we learn may be permanently lost from memory. Such details would never be able to be recovered by hypnosis, or any other special technique, because these details are simply no longer there.
from Loftus, E. & Loftus, G. (1980) On the permanence of stored information
in the human brain, American Psychologist, vol. 35, pp. 409-420.
Loftus & Loftus 1 | Loftus & Loftus 2 | Stop/Yield
Confabulation | PET 1 | PET 2