Question

forgetting anything good that happened on your trip to france because you just broke up with your french fiancée and now cant bear the thought of anything french is a good example of ________: memories are distorted by your current belief system.

blocking
transience
bias
suggestibility

Explanation:

Analyze the scenario

The scenario describes forgetting positive aspects of a past trip to France due to a recent painful breakup with a French fiancée. The prompt explicitly notes: "Memories are distorted by your current belief system."

Apply the memory concept

Using the Seven Sins of Memory knowledge point, we evaluate the options:

• Blocking: A temporary inability to retrieve stored information (e.g., tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon).
• Transience: The gradual fading of memory over time.
• Bias: The distortion of past memories by current feelings, beliefs, or knowledge.
• Suggestibility: The incorporation of external misinformation into personal memories.

Since the distortion is driven internally by the person's current emotional state and belief system, it is a classic example of bias.

Answer:

• blocking
• transience
• bias (Correct answer)
• suggestibility