The Seven Sins of Memory

Your book is called the seven sins of memory. Can you first talk about those sins, or why you call them sins? And some of them are, as you say, sins of omission and sins of comission. What are the differences? Back around two thous 19 99, i was kind of surveying the literature on memory errors. It struck me that while psychologists had known for decades that memory is prone to error,. nobody had really tryd to organize our knowledge and try to suggest a way of classifying these errors. My best take on the literature was that therere the seven basic categories of memory errors.