transience weakening or loss of a memory over time
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Transience
weakening or loss of a memory over time
How Long Does a Memory Last?
• Conditioned taste aversion • Imprinting• Forgetting vs extinction• Habituation, dishabituation,
sensitization
Raise your right hand for each word that is in all capitals.
lion
TABLE
TREE
book
FORK
bird
cup
MONKEY
pencil
LIZARD
mushroom
chair
CAR
picture
FROG
ROPE
magazine
elephant
BEAR
BOTTLE
Raise your right hand for each word that represents
something that is alive.
tiger
SOFA
bush
pen
SPOON
cat
bowl
PENGUIN
microphone
SNAIL
flower
dresser
BIKE
photograph
GNAT
DUMBBELL
goblet
goat
BABY
HAIRBRUSH
Working Memory
Reducing Transience• phonological loop• thinking and talking about an event
increases chance of remembering it • no repeated similar events• analyzing and putting in context • ask yourself questions about what you
want to remember• give it a story that is easy to remember • put it to music
Absent-mindedness
info not registered because of distraction
Change blindness
First example from ABC News
Monkey Business
Prospective Memory
• Remembering to do something later • Time-driven or event-driven
How to Improve Time-driven Prospective Memory
Provide event-driven cues that give us the info when we need it and are informative enough