Wait, am I forgetting something?
I always find myself asking that question while waiting in a unreasonably long Stop & Shop line. I look around at what I have in my cart and decide that I have everything I came for thanks to my phenomenal memory. Besides, written lists are for old people anyway right?
Unfortunately, my memory isn't quite as "phenomenal" as I usually think it is. By the time I get home, I already have a handful of items in mind that I had forgotten earlier at the grocery store. I get the first few things and the last few things and forget just about everything in between. Luckily, I'm not the only person who experiences this phenomenon. There's something called the serial position effect. First discovered by Hermann Ebbinghaus, the serial position effect explains specific remembrance patterns with primacy and recency. Primacy effect is the tendency to remember the beginning of a list due to the belief that the first few words are more significant and recency is the tendency to remember the end of a list which is still in short term memory.
I guess written lists aren't only for old people after all.
I always find myself asking that question while waiting in a unreasonably long Stop & Shop line. I look around at what I have in my cart and decide that I have everything I came for thanks to my phenomenal memory. Besides, written lists are for old people anyway right?
Unfortunately, my memory isn't quite as "phenomenal" as I usually think it is. By the time I get home, I already have a handful of items in mind that I had forgotten earlier at the grocery store. I get the first few things and the last few things and forget just about everything in between. Luckily, I'm not the only person who experiences this phenomenon. There's something called the serial position effect. First discovered by Hermann Ebbinghaus, the serial position effect explains specific remembrance patterns with primacy and recency. Primacy effect is the tendency to remember the beginning of a list due to the belief that the first few words are more significant and recency is the tendency to remember the end of a list which is still in short term memory.
I guess written lists aren't only for old people after all.
"The faintest stroke of a pen is even sharper than even the sharpest brain."