1. Tales of Forgetting.

What kinds of forgetting have you experienced? Identify the phenomenon described in each of the following examples and provide an illustration from your own life, if applicable.

1. Think of a time when you forgot something relatively important. What happened? What caused you to forget? How do you know it was forgetting and not simply a "failure to encode information?
2. Describe something that you learned when you were young, but the knowledge of which has "decayed" over time. Since one retains most of their previously learned knowledge, would you try to relearn this information? Why or why not?
3. Think about your childhood memories. Share one of which you are certain isn't a memory at all, but something you've seen in a picture or heard your family talk about it many times.
4. Have you ever accidentally forgotten something you really didn't want to do? How did it affect you? Describe this experience of motivated forgetting.
5. Have you ever been unconscious? If so, how did this period of unconsciousness interfere with your memory? Describe the experience.