Mary has been writing an academic essay on partnerships between schools and community service organizations to promote literacy. she has struggled to come up with a thesis that fully encompasses the argument that she's trying to make. one day, while reading a particularly engaging scholarly article on the topic, she suddenly realizes what angle her thesis should take. unfortunately, she doesn't jot it down. she's sure she'll remember it. what did mary do wrong in her research process?

She didn’t write down ideas or thoughts she had while reading.

The failure to recover a memory is general reason for overlooking and forgetting. Why are we frequently unfit to recover data from memory? One conceivable clarification of recovery disappointment is known as decay hypothesis. As per this hypothesis, a memory trace is made each time another hypothesis is framed.

sir frederic attributed inaccuracies to schemas. memory reconstruction is one part actual events and one part personal schema, which can result in inaccuracies when memories are reconstructed.