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Different types of memory "skills"?
I'm curious whether or not they have names for certain "types" of memory.
For example, I have one friend who can remember numbers really well. He remembers the amount he paid at any given restaurant from years back. He can spit out people's phone numbers on demand.
Another friend of mine is extremely good with faces, but bad with names. Any picture she sees on Facebook, she can identify that person in real life, even if she saw the picture weeks ago.
As for me, I can remember conversations word-for-word up to 10 years ago. I also involuntarily remember the license plates of all my friends and family members.
To summarize:
1) Everyone remembers certain things better than they remember other things. Why is this, does it just depend on the way your brain turns out?
2) Do they have names for a good memory with numbers, faces, etc.? (I'm looking for more specific names than auditory and visual memory.)
3) Just for fun, is there something that you remember really well better than others?
2 Answers
- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
1. Some people may have various areas of their memory system better developed, some have photographic memories for example, some are good with numbers.
2. Not that I know of, there is:
# VUSUAL CODE – Face, Pictures, scene
# AUDITORY CODE – Sounds, spoken, languages, tunes
# SAMANTIC CODE – Involves meanings e.g. stories
#ECHOIC – Auditory encoding – TRESIMAN (1960)
#ICONIC – Visual encoding - SPERLINGS (1960)
3. Not sure, probably certain events, if you pay attention to it and rehearse it you tend to keep it in your memory long than someone who doesn't
Source(s): http://aqabpsychology.co.uk/?q=node/41 - BillLv 71 decade ago
1. We remember most easily what's important to us. Different things are important to different people.
2. Not that I know of, theres short term, long term, factual/details, and ideas/abstract.
3. Ideas, but to say I remember them better than others is presumptive--how do I know how well they remember ideas?
