Absent-mindedness can refer to three very different things:
Lapses of attention are clearly a part of everyone’s life. Some are merely inconvenient, such as missing a familiar turn-off on the highway, and some are extremely serious, such as failures of attention that cause accidents, injury, and loss of life .
Absent-mindedness is related to memory failures. For example, Schachter treats absent-mindedness as one of the seven sins of memory
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