Originally posted by Trevor Marriott
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Reading the articles and research, we are hard-wired to remember sound that may signal a threat or some sort of problem, and to forget innocuous incidents rapidly. It's an inbuilt survival strategy.
We are surrounded by sounds every minute of every day but how many do we remember? You'd remember the sound of a wolf because that's a threat but you wouldn't remember the sound of say a car passing on the road. We hear hundreds of cars passing on the road every day, but how many of those events do we remember the next day? It's not a threat, it's innocuous, and so those sounds do not make it into short term memory, they're discarded within seconds.
Albert was thinking about work and just going about his business of going to the toilet a couple of times in the early morning.
We are told by researchers that one of the most common errors in memory is that the event is not fully encoded into the mind because that person is not taking much notice.
Albert must be a prime candidate for that, like we all would be in his situation, simply because memory is malleable and we are hard-wired to remember certain events and forget others.
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