Status Updates From Memory: A Very Short Introd...

“The presence of accessible images led people to be overly confident, so that incorrect details accompanied by mental images were reported with greater confidence than correct details that lacked these associated images. These findings seem to to indicate there is no completely reliable way of distinguishing between real and imagined memories.”

If the function of education is to, at least in part, train individuals in how to access and effectively utilize their own memory then, man, what are we even doing rn? We’re screwing it up in so many ways, and we HAVE the research to confirm our errors. WE GOTTA DO BETTER, MAN.

To the rhetorical question of how often do you try to memorize meaningfulness nonsense material: frequently. This question underestimates the amount of time, energy, and memory storage childcare workers dedicate to memorizing entire libraries of nonsense made by children. Ebbinghaus makes a lot of sense to me.