How We Make Memories: Crash Course Psychology #13

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Remember that guy from 300? What was his name? ARG!!! It turns out our brains make and recall memories in different ways. In this episode of Crash Course Psychology, Hank talks about the way we do it, what damaging that process can do to us, and that guy… with the face and six-pack…

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Chapters:
Introduction: Memory 00:00
Accessing Memory: Recall, Recognition, and Relearning 1:44
How Memory is Stored 2:48
Working Memory 4:24
Explicit Memory 4:56
Implicit Memory 5:19
Types of Long-Term Memory: Procedural & Episodic 6:12
Mnemonics, Chunking, and Memory Tricks 6:59
Shallow vs. Deep Processing 7:28
The Importance of Memory 8:33
Review & Credits 9:06

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  1. Our continuous chain of memories trick us into believing we always were and will always be one single person, when, in reality, we are many different persons across time and space.

  2. I once had a discussion with a friend, probably 12 or 13 years ago, about the order in which we wash our hair and body in the shower (we both shampooed, rinsed, conditioned, body washed while the conditioner is in, then rinsed again) and I still recall the conversation every time I'm in the shower.

  3. People won't always remember what you say, or what you do, but they will always remember how you made them feel, so make them feel something good and their memory of you will reflect the same.

  4. When I was little (around 10 yrs old), I was curious to know what 99 x 88 was on the calculator. 8,712 is the answer and 18 yrs later I have not forgotten.

  5. I would think that when we remember something we, in essence, open a file, view it, and put it away. I am assuming it can be edited to.. Just like opening a document on a computer, saving changes, and recommitting it to hard disk

  6. He's not wrong, when I was younger for the longest time I couldn't remember how to spell the word beautiful. Without any prodding I decided to write a song to help and literally made me spell it out. Went something like this,

    You are B-E-A-U-TI-FU-L,
    Baby you got me under your spell…

    To this day, I can't ever forget how to spell that word.

  7. I have issues absorbing information from videos so after watching your videos and immediately forgetting everything I rewatch it again on double speed and it gets absorbed better the second time.

  8. I was Bernice in my school 🙁 I fell off a stool chair that was in my Chemistry class and everyone laughed and I couldn't move because I twisted my ankle

  9. hey does anybody know why my brain decided to memorize my permit's identification number after reading it twice but i can't remember what i did last week w/o effort okay ty

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