PSY372H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Change Blindness, Forgetting Curve, Interference Theory
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Absent mindedness is the most common one why we are not remembering something, because it just not encoded. If you are not paying attention to something, you are not going to remember it. You are not attending to or encoding to the thing that you are currently experiencing. It might be a shallow processing that you only cares about the capital and non-capital. It might be automatic actions without attention: you always place your keys here and you then were not paying attention to this. There is a follow up study that only 1/3 noticed the change, the exaplaination: If you are talking to a construction worker. Since we are walking on campus, we are only interacting with people in a lower level, so we do not pya that much attention. Thus, we only labelling people, oh this is a construction worker who is trying to ask me direction, so they did not notice that.
