[1] Examples include: Outside the theory of memory and mind, selective retention may also refer to the retaining of contractual agreements upon moving on in open politics or of physical phenotypes in eugenic methods of propagation of traits and features of a genome, among other fields where action can impose a stratum of creative limitation.
Testing female undergraduate students in recall found that in a short video with a male introducing themselves and being considered for a future partner, participants selectively remembered more of what he said than of what he looked like.
[5] This is supporting of the notion that the purpose of evolution is to pass on genetic information and that selective retention plays a part in that.
In an evolutionary perspective, the organization of the semantic memory may link and connect this type of information more strongly to influence recall and therefore the survival of the individual.
[7] But this storage process does not occur only in sleep, but highly stressful situations also induce this selective type of memory consolidation.