Persistence (Memory)

Persistence is one of the psychologist Daniel Schacter's seven sins of memory, describing the unwanted, intrusive recall of disturbing information, ranging from a minor embarrassing mistake to a traumatic experience. Unlike the other six sins, which are all failures to remember, persistence is a failure to forget: the memory keeps resurfacing against the person's own wishes rather than fading with time. In its more severe forms Schacter links persistence to the development of phobias and to the intrusive, unwanted memories seen after trauma, making it the one sin of memory that comes from remembering too well rather than too poorly. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/