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What is known about superior memory abilities?
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What is known about superior memory abilities? In this essay I will discuss superior memory abilities. I will first overview those that have exceptionally high memory abilities and consider a theoretical account of these individuals looking at the techniques they use. I will then use these ideas in order to see how they can have an impact on enhancing average memory ability. Research tells us that human memory is extremely flexible but places many limits on how well people can recall information. Those limits include the rate of decay or displacement of information as it is presented, and the capacity of short-term memory, which Miller (1956) claims is 'the magic number 7 + or - 2'. This means that not all information reaches LTM. LTM depends very much on the meaningful organisation of information. This means that recall errors frequently arise from interferences caused by existing or previously remembered information and...
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