stackyFACTSNormal, practical information goes straight into the mental trash can. However, if you picture a giant purple elephant riding a unicycle, your mind will aggressively guard that useless image forever.
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The Von Restorff effect dictates that an item sticking out like a sore thumb will be remembered effortlessly. Make your grocery list all vegetables and one…
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When faced with two foreign cities, you will always guess the one you have seen on television is bigger. Your mind inherently favors whatever it recognizes,…
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Telling your brain to delete a file actually works if you try hard enough. Directed forgetting proves you can consciously block specific neural pathways,…
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The serial position curve ensures the middle children of data are aggressively ignored. Lacking the novelty of the first items and the immediate buffer of the…
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Trace decay theory suggests that your stored information has a very literal shelf life. If you do not actively access a specific stored file over a long…
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Your brain is spectacularly bad at planning the future, which is why that pill bottle stares mockingly at you. Prospective memory is the ability to remember…
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