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2 kinds of memories
- explicit, created through conscious experience;
- implicit, which form when past experiences affect us, sometimes without our knowledge.
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...is the number we check our phones on a daily basis.
And nearly double that if we’re between the ages of 18 and 24.
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Repetition
The repetition of tasks (reading, or saying words over and over) continues to be the best method for transforming short-term memories into long-term ones. To do that, we have to retrain our minds to focus on one task at a time.
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Memory is a recontruction
It's not a photographic recording and it changes over time: our brains are forever rerecording those memories, making them far more error prone.
Recalling a long-term memory brings it back into our short-term memory, which essentially gives it new context.
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Learning more about a thought
We can learn more about a thought by drawing on a certain kind of knowledge of it. It is not explicit knowledge you can find in textbooks but a form of implicit knowledge.
We can better recognize the correct words of this knowledge by an analogy with simpler forms of recognition. Our recog...
The different kinds of memories
We hold on to different kinds of memories.
- Short-term memories last seconds to hours and long-term memories last for years.
- We also have a working memory, which allows us to keep something in mind for a limited time by repea...
Kinds Of Expectations
- Foreseeable expectations are those which we assume others will know based on our interpersonal relationship with them and feel offended when we see it is breached.
- Reciprocity expectation is a hope that our favors and kind deeds towards someone are repaid by them.
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