Usually means: Recalling only certain events, details.
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  2. selective memory: Collins English Dictionary
  3. Selective memory: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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  5. selective memory: Wiktionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (selective memory)

noun:  (neurology, psychology) The ability to retrieve certain facts and events but not others.
noun:  (psychology) An ability to remember some facts while apparently forgetting others, especially when they are inconvenient, embarrassing, or disadvantageous.

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