One claim in the psychology of learning and cognition is that bias makes human memory unreliable. Discuss this claim with reference to one or more sources of bias in memory.
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The claim that cognitive biases systematically distort human memory is strongly supported by research, although it should not be taken to mean that memory is entirely inaccurate. In cognitive psychology, memory is generally understood as reconstructive rather than reproductive: people do not store a perfect copy of eve