Memory refers to the capacity to retain and retrieve information, and also to the structures that account for this capacity. When you can not retrieve something or distinguish what you originally heard or experienced it is known as source amnesia. False memories of events or experiences occur when we think about the event many times, it contains a lot of detail in our mind, it is very easy to imagine, and when you can focus your emotional reactions to the event rather then on what actually happened.
<Tab/>Conscious, intentional recollection of an event or of an item of inf…
