I've always had very bad memory but I learned to deal with it. Many times I do not remember conversations, things that have happened, things that I said ... And sometimes I have to agree with others not without some misgivings. Although at first my mind is blank at the end just remembering the details. The other day while at a friend's house I saw a book that I also had. Suddenly I realized the song was also torn in the same place in both copies, so it was the same book, not two.
When I told my friend began to recall details such as where it was bought or how long ... He even opened the book and taught me a few sheets with notes of his which seemed to indicate that it was his copy.
The point is that, as I imagined, when I get home and get my book, it was not with the rest, and little by little I remember that several months before it was given along with a comic book yes I returned.
The mind is curious. I forgot I what I do with my copy and I invented it or forgot I lent him that I had borrowed it and was invented that had bought it?
few months ago I bought a book that I read slowly, savoring and enjoying every page, how interesting it is. It's called "The Seven Sins of Memory by Daniel L. Schacter and discusses how the mind forgets and remembers.
" Imagine you are watching a group of people standing in a circle passing a basketball, and suddenly someone dressed as a gorilla enters the circle, stops, beating his chest and leaves; sure would repair at this point, Right? The psychologists Daniel Simons and Chris Chabris filmed a scene like that and showed it to a group of people who asked to follow the path of the ball by counting the number of passes was one of the circle. About half of the participants did not notice the presence of the gorilla. "
For someone like me could not help constantly forget, it was very interesting to discover the reasons why we forget or remember things, what happens in the mind for that to happen, how the whole process, etc. .
Schacter's book describes seven sins or malfunctions of memory, which are over, distractibility, blocking, misattribution, suggestibility, susceptibility and persistence.
The course is how the passage of time affects our memory. Can occur when we forget the name of someone we do not see long or not remember some details of what we did last week.
The distractibility happens when you do something and then not remember having done so. Where we left the keys, glasses, etc? Not because time has passed and we've forgotten, but not pay enough attention when we did.
The lock is when we realize that we know something but many efforts we make, no got to remember. The information is in our brain and sometimes remember details "is a name that starts with C", "I have it on the tip of the tongue", but did not recover.
In the case of misattribution , the person remembers, or thinks he remembers events that have happened in reality. Places that have no state or another, but on different dates to remember ... The effects are more subtle and more difficult to prove, however, seems to be a fairly common fault: after reading "Robbery" and "Alberto" many people can remember wrongly have read "Robert."
The suggestibility is a similar failure but that has been induced in some way. In the book are recounted several cases dramatic, " In a British case reported in the 1970's, Peter Reilly came home and discovered the body of his murdered mother. Then he informed the police who identified him as a suspect and gave a polygraph test that Reilly did not pass. Although initially denied being the murderer, gradually became convinced that he had committed the crime and signed a written confession. After two years he was exonerated by new evidence adduced to the effect that he could not have killed his mother . "
The propensity is the way our mind makes use of our memories to be of use in the present. There are five types of propensity: the compliance, exchange of hindsight, the egocentric and the stereotypical.
The propensity of conformity and the exchange are those that are activated when we adapt our memories of the past to match or differ from our present. Thus, people who are happy today and were unhappy in the past, tend to remember the past as a happy time, or conversely, people who are unhappy today, but were happy in the past tend to remember it as a time not so happy. In the case of the propensity to change people who believe they have evolved about how they were in the past, tend to exaggerate their perception.
According to the propensity of hindsight, once known an opinion on a subject is inevitable that our opinion be influenced. For this reason, according to studies conducted with physicians, those who knew of a previous diagnosis offered a greater number of similar diagnoses than those who did not know.
Moreover, the propensity egocentric determined that people tend to evaluate in a positive exaggerated and stereotypical ourselves we tend to remember information that falls into stereotypes, since it is easy to remember.
The persistence occurs when as much as we try to remove from our mind a memory, we can not, and it returns and returns continually. This situation occurs when we can not take away from the head a melody or when a person feels remorse for what he has done.
You will be able to give credible or not, there are many people who are capable of handling this type of error in themselves, but Schacter's book is full of references to books and medical studies citing real cases studied by scientists.
is interesting to note that our own mind is beyond our comprehension and that in many cases we are unaware of how to perceive reality and how it works before it ...
* Details wikipedia book
* Web Daniel L. Shacter
* The book on Amazon
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