– how come we can remember lyrics of songs heard 10, maybe 20 years ago but we forget to remove the tea bag from the cup ?
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You can’t remember most of the songs you’ve heard, but the tiny fraction you remember are exceptions to the rule that you forget almost everything.
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One is long term memory, and the other is working memory.
Working memory is flushed unconsciously, meaning you don’t know when it’s being erased and replaced with something new. Whatever you pay attention to dictates the contents of your working memory. As the innkeeper in Bree constantly reminds everyone, “One thing pushes another out”.
You forget to take the teabag out of the tea because other things filled your working memory.
You should set a timer for the tea. Over-brewed tea is nasty.
ive heard that the greater the emotional response, the better we remember it. might be why we remember songs so well
We use the same word, “forget,” for losing song lyrics as for not removing the tea bag, but the processes are totally different. When you put in the tea bag, you segregate part of your working memory to store the instruction to remove it. Working memory dissipates after about 30 seconds unless you actively refresh it. When you hear a memorable song, it goes into long-term memory, which can last years but only presents itself to you when prompted.
Have you ever had an experience where you forget to remove the tea bag, but then later something reminds you and you remember planning to remove it? What happened there is that the “remove the tea bag” instruction dissipated from working memory but was copied into long-term memory, and something in your life prompted the copy to present itself to you.
People remove the tea bag from the cup? I just hold it opposite to the side I drink on.
One tends to remember things well that have an emotional connection, and the emotion associated with an event is often the most vivid part of the memory.
It’s like RAM and ROM.
Stored things are easy to access and things that you work on can easily be deleted and not recovered
I once pupped into a parking space and started to get out of the car before realizing I left it in drive… but those Sum 41 songs are bangin’
Well I dont think you remember everything at the same time in the moment you should remember your tea. If in that situation someone asked you If you remember that you have a teabag in your tea right now, you would remember it, wouldnt you? You cant compare those two kinds of remembering something in that way.
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