A key theme in the topic of memory is that much of our past experience is reconstructed rather than stored and recalled as it actually happened.Why is this?

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--Our memory system is highly adaptive and seeks out information that is most vivid and important and seeks to understand the gist of the information by going beyond what occurred and assigning some meaning and coherence to the events.
--Because of this,we will lose certain information (via encoding failures)and will attempt to fill in the gaps of information based on our prior expectations (bias,schemas,misinformation,source monitoring errors,suggestibility,and misattribution).Because of this process,our memory is a combination of fact and fiction.

A Key Theme in the Topic of Memory Is That