selective memory

Noun

Meaning

(medicine, psychology) an ability to remember some facts while apparently forgetting others, especially when they are inconvenient

the ability to retrieve certain facts and events but not others

Examples

There is a kind of selective memory that afflicts men when they view the past. They see the good and overlook the evil. Isaac Asimov

We as Americans and as humans have very selective hearing and very selective memory. We only hear what we want to hear and disregard the rest. Frank Luntz

I learned that I never really know the true story of my guests' lives, that I have to content myself with knowing that when I'm interviewing somebody, I'm getting a combination of fact and truth and self-mythology and self-delusion and selective memory and faulty memory. Terry Gross

I quit high school really young, and I always loved information. I'm a self-taught kind of chick. I don't have any tactics on studying, memorizing things. It's selective memory. If I feel like it's going to be a prominent factor in the future, then I will remember that. Michelle Rodriguez

I think the secret to a hoppy life is a selective memory. Remember what you are most grateful for and quickly forget what your not. Richard Paul Evans

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