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Absent-mindedness
Absent-mindedness is one of The Seven Sins of Memory created by Daniel Schacter, and is specifically under the subcategory, sin of omission. Absent-mindedness is simply a failure in attention; involving an overlap between both attention and memory in both the encoding and retrieval stage of memory.
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