The Upside of Forgetting
Why we forget things and how there's a silver lining. What was I talking about? SUBSCRIBE to BrainCraft! Click here: http://ow.ly/rt5IE Talking psychology, neuroscience & why we act the way...
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It’s early Monday morning and you realise you forgot to pick up your dry cleaning, youcan’t find your keys and then you have no idea what your Facebook password is.As you start to panic, it feels like your memory kind of sucks. But your brain is designedto forget. And it’s not necessarily a bad thing.[BrainCraft intro]Psychological theories try and make sense of why we forget pieces of information, likeall of our passwords. Decay theory suggests we can’t retrieve information because overtime, traces of our memories fade away and eventually disappear.Interference theory suggests new memories compete with our existing ones. When new informationis similar to a memory you already have, the new information interferes with your abilityto recall that existing memory.An...
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It’s early Monday morning and you realise you forgot to pick up your dry cleaning, youcan’t find your keys and then you have no idea what your Facebook password is.As you start to panic, it feels like your memory kind of sucks. But your brain is designedto forget. And it’s not necessarily a bad thing.[BrainCraft intro]Psychological theories try and make sense of why we forget pieces of information, likeall of our passwords. Decay theory suggests we can’t retrieve information because overtime, traces of our memories fade away and eventually disappear.Interference theory suggests new memories compete with our existing ones. When new informationis similar to a memory you already have, the new information interferes with your abilityto recall that existing memory.An...
