Wow, you are one hell of an idiot, now aren't you? We don't remember things the same way as we observe it, and the more we look back on a certain memory, the more that memory changes, so you having a "near to photographic memory" is impossible.
+Colin Jones (Ponder - FUHA) Also, if you were to take into consideration on how many idiots there are on UA-cam these days, making dumb comments, than you would know why I was correcting you and taking your comment literally.
Great videos! Although i'm more math/physics oriented person i still enjoy watching your videos on psychology and as far as I know you're the only one making psychology videos. Oh and by the way you look quite pretty :)
Aren't the Green brothers great?And thanks for the tip! Oh, by the way, I discovered your channel just today, and since you're here, let me tell you, I LOVE IT! It's amazing to keep the videos very short and concise. Greetings from Tunisia. :)
Lily's Yes. Second your opinions on both Green brothers and this channel :) On an unrelated note, and if you don;t mind me asking, how is life and weather in Tunisia currently. Actually I am scheduled to work there for few months, so was curious. :)
Mukesh Kumar Oh, I don't mind.Life is alright, I guess. It depends on where you are, really. Life in the capital is just like any other place, nothing special. The weather currently is quite cold, obviously, but in few months it'll start being very very hot. Good luck :)
Then what's the proper name for a "photographic memory"? Because my memory works with pictures and is often so clear that when I did tests in school I could pretty much re-read the book with the facts from pictures in my memory, and if not that then at least remember what the pages looked like, where on the page the answer was, and by remembering that I could remember the answer. That's what I've always called a "photographic memory". Sure, it's not flawless, but I do remember in pictures and I seem to usually remember things a lot better than others thanks to this. What is the correct term for it?
+KreeZafi You could say that your memory is more spatially oriented. here is an article at Slate you may find interesting. \www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2006/04/kaavya_syndrome.html
I'd say visual memory. Being a cognitive system it might be developed in different degree in different people although I am not a neurologist so check it out :).
Maicol Diaz not necessarily. it depends on what exactly got damaged, how, how healthy you are, when proper care is received. many stroke victims have improved at least a littile with therapy and so on.
I did hear it as a Gm b6, but it's probably more because of the suggestion in the video of "minor chord" when the chord was played rather than what the chord sounded like in and of itself.
You say there's no such thing as a photographic memory, but I would argue that that term is a rather accurate one. I once needed to recall a chart my operating systems instructor forgot to record five days prior that was drawn in a certain shape, and had around 50 values. Without thinking I needed to retain the specifics of that chart, when the instructor mentioned he would have to start over from the beginning, I mentioned that I might remember what was written. I closed my eyes for a bit, and redrew the chart from memory. Thinking such a thing impossible, the instructor checked the numbers and it was all correct. (The numbers in the chart followed a formula, so verifiable.) I could visualize the chalkboard. I could visualize where the instructor was standing, the amount of light that poured in from the windows. And when I visualized the chalkboard, I could read off the numbers.
What was the weather that day? What clothes were you wearing, and what was the instructor wearing? You can have a great memory, but a "photographic" memory would preserve highly accurate details about every thought and observation you ever had.
@@practicaldeduction6862 I know this is a 5yo comment, but no. Human brains don't have absolutely perfect recall, let alone recording of information. People with superb eidetic memory certainly have _vastly_ superior abilities in these areas, but it is by no means perfect. People with eidetic memory may remember what clothes, or what weather, or even pretty small details about certain moments from months or even years in the past. But to recall the _exact_ positions that a raindrop fell on your window twenty years ago in an unremarkable downpour, for example, is practically impossible. Our brains only record and recall what we train them to. Some people have greater ability than others, but none of them are perfectly photographic.
I wonder why the "Mozart effect" doesn't work with minor chords. Im a musician and I LOVE minor chords. They add substance and richness. I would love to learn more about this.
I Would like You to elaborate on the Classical Music theme. As I understand You: 1) Spatial recognition improved WHILE listning to classical music. With no lasting effect. 2) The spatial recognition furthermore was only present in major keys and NOT in minor keys. Now a harmonic triad consists of: a) The root. b) The third - more about that later. c) The perfect fifth is tuned precisely to the root 1.5 times higher. I.e. the soundwaves will coincide after precisely 2 wavelengths of the root. That is the fifth is 3/2 of the root. A major third is 5/4 of the root. This means that the sound wave of the major third coincides precisely with the root after 4 vibrations of the root. Interesting: Seems (to me) to be that fase does not really matter. To me it seems like the minor third is altnatively "catching up/being caught up" with the root (or its mate the octave above) and the fifth. Help me out here, as I am trying to understand - something - don't know precisely what!
Hmm... I keep seeing Tacos in Vanessa's videos, such as at 1:36. Jake from Vsauce3 is so obsessed with Tacos that he has an entire talk show based around them, called Talk-o time. Coincidence? I. THINK. NOT.
1:08 Vanessa isn't very clear here. She says picture memories aren't encoded the way they are recalled (?!). And she uses "Eidetic memory" but doesn't define it. One definition is that it's a synonym for photographic memory. And certainly there are people with exceptional memory, even the memory of images. Stephen Wiltshire is an example: ua-cam.com/video/x3IMP0fwlCM/v-deo.html or ua-cam.com/video/xcX-Nvm-wmE/v-deo.html He draws cities like London, Rome, and New York in detailed panorama after only a brief helicopter flight. I suspect Vanessa means our minds are incapable of retrieving an image and then inspecting it on an internal viewer. It doesn't _seem_ like I can do that, but I'm not so sure she proved it doesn't happen.
That is interesting, and it does make sense. I do wonder about the first instinct one though. I have found that second guessing myself often causes more harm than good. Maybe it is just that it feels worse so it is more memorable. There is also the fact that changing an answer causes an increase in stress, especially when changing it over and over. Increased stress levels certainly lower decision making skills. Great video though.
Hahaha, you're so 'pun'ny :P I love watching these, as I studied BA Psychology at university. I have not yet applied it to anything, but keeping the interesting facts relevant is always good. Also, Aussie, Aussie, Aussie!!!
I don't quite follow in your falsification of photographic memory. Are you saying that simply because our mind does not encode information like a camera people do not remember things as an image even if they have 100% accuracy of everything in their field of vision at that time? If that's the case isn't that a bit of an over literization?
In my understanding, it's not about people not being able to recall things in their memory through images. Our own processes of recollection often manifests some degree of visual representation--that is, as an image of the initial "source material." The idea is that despite our capacity to recall things in images, these images are _always_ imperfect representations of the actual experience/subject. And this also applies to people with eidetic memories who despite their excellent memories are also never _fully_ accurate in all details of an image. If I remember correctly, this is at least partly due to the fact that other unrelated memories can affect our general recollection of a particular instance. So essentially there's no "100% accuracy" when we recall things through images in our heads. This is in contrast with pulling out a photograph that 'perfectly' captures every detail, and does so every time.
The Great Gyrofluff It's because the brain tends to filter out or disregard details we don't think are important. Which, of course, makes mystery stories possible :)
As a psychology student, I actually wasn't aware of the first instinct fallacy. I think I might keep doing it though just because its much faster than going through my answers again and most of the ones I had problems with I won't be able to make a better guess on. I will go back though if the prof slipped up and put the answer in another question, hasn't happened much but its happened enough times.
how come i can memorize the sequence of notes on a piano (both left and right hand) in a very short period of time and remember them for years but with studying i cant remember anything?
I never really fell for the first instinct fallacy, I constantly second guessed myself and me being unsure of an answer usually meant trying harder to figure it out rather then trying to pick one over another, however my parents always made a big deal about how I should rely on my first instinct.
Actually there is a person with photographic memory, but it developed as result of head trauma as a child. He was playing baseball with his friends, and was struck in head by baseball. The fall onto pavement didn't help his already damaged skull. Since then he has memory comparable to a camera. He once rode over the new York city skyline in a helicopter, and from memory a week latwe, drew an identical image as the video camera recording it did.
anything can stimulate brain cell growth if you enjoy it. the more you enjoy it, and the more complex it is, the more brain cells it grows. but only if you derive pleasure from it.
3:05 So if that means that if my first instict was to click away I probably shouldn't do that, then if my first instinct is to keep watchin the video then I SHOULD click away?
it doesn't work when the major chords are replaced with minor chords...... Well that wouldn't be classical music then would it? That's like saying the blues didn't make people tap their foot when the tritone is taken out.
"Participants from 60 to 90 years old" means no one with a young brain was given a chance to "keep their brain young". So the initial premise isn't even addressed. "crossword puzzles" technically a game, but hardly the same as regularly playing Minecraft or Kerbal Space Program or DOOM or any active sport, games that require repeated quick thinking and creative problem solving.
Mineporn requires no brain. A watermelon could play it. Also, learn how the neural tissue ages ( if it does, it's hard to day with certainty ) before you spew nonsense like this
miloradvlaovic The initial hypothesis was "Playing video games prevents aging of the brain from occurring in the first place." But the experiment was based on the very different premise "Playing video games reverses aging of the brain that has already occurred." Since these two things are very much not the same, we can see the initial premise was never addressed in the study.
I had a psychology professor that once recommended that students not change their first guesses on exams because the first guess is more likely to be correct. Shows what he knew...
Isn't the logic of the first instinct fallacy more because, for example, in an ABCD scenario changing from a wrong answer to a right answer is more common because from wrong to right has a 33% success rate but right to wrong has 0%? Where do the wrong to wrong changes fit in the hierarchy?
So is eidetic memory genetic? I remember reading an article about a guy who got his memory to a crazy level purely by training. Maybe it was a TED talk...
About the photographic memory, whenever I see for example lyrics in a lyric video and layer on want to sing that song its almost like I am watching the video again in my head. That's just one example but I think photographic memory is real.
Actually some of us have surprisingly accurate photographic memories, to the point where you would be shocked by the amount of minute details given. And mozart is VERY healing, studies given in schools have shown the proof of this. Student behavior and grades improve dramatically when mozart is playing in the background while they are doing their work. Unfortunately, for psychologists who become too wrapped up in their book studies and dont look any further than that, this video does not prove a thing. I've often wondered why psychologists have the highest suicide rate of all the medical professions, and im pretty sure i know why. All those degrees on their wall, but they dont know how to look you in the face when they are speaking to you. A lot of assumptions really do create a small, closed mind, resulting in small minded thinking which does not ever come to a full conclusion because their is ALWAYS more to know.
hi, why if i try first time, for exasmple a track in a game, the first is the best and after i take more error? (sorry for my english, i'm learning it)
Does the First Instinct Fallacy have anything to do with the "Door Number 3" phenomenon, aka: The Monty Hall Problem? The theory behind the Monty Hall Problem is as follows: "- There are 3 doors, behind which are two goats and a car. - You pick a door (call it door A). You’re hoping for the car of course. - Monty Hall, the game show host, examines the other doors (B & C) and always opens one of them with a goat (Both doors might have goats; he’ll randomly pick one to open) Here’s the game: Do you stick with door A (original guess) or switch to the other unopened door? Does it matter?" (betterexplained.com/articles/understanding-the-monty-hall-problem/) Apparently if you switch doors, you'll have a better chance at getting the car.
I don't think so. Monty Hall Problem is purely mathematical, while when people change answers, they have no new information that helps them bias towards any answer. It's mostly just on how people think when they change answer, resulting in the First Instinct Fallacy due to loss aversion.
in 8th grade a guy i know wasn't working and just doodling in his workbook. the teacher called him out on it. my friend said he had a photographic memory and could remember everything written on the whiteboard. there was like 500 words on the board and he looked at it for about 2 seconds. somehow the teacher believed him >_
Not sure if it would be confirmation bias, but for a while in school I started putting a period next to my "second guess" and didn't change my answer and the first guess was right.
hyesun doesn't even have to be classical just music you enjoy. when you feel "in tune" to the music you're listening to that's the "Mozart effect" kicking in
I always go for my first instinct on tests. They are always correct... The best example I can do is that in one social studies test I did on the English civil war, I didn't learn the answer to a question, but I got it right.... It was multiple choice, and all the questions I got right were multiple choice.
So, never mind increasing your IQ or whatever cognitive ability, does solving calculus problems, playing chess, sudoku, crosswords, whatever help with keeping our brains in shape? Or is it about novelty, learning new things and stuff? Musical instruments? Nootropics? Damn, I'm far too concerned I think.
Solving any sort of problem by comparing it to a different puzzle in an apparently different domain builds or strengthens connections, which keeps the brain in shape.
Okay firstly I didn't believe any of these and secondly when it comes to the first instinct one I greatly benefit from sticking to my initial hunch as 90% of the times that I do doubt myself and change the answers I've previously made it turns out that my first guess was correct so... Take that
+Herohammer Studios You haven't actually recorded all the times you changed your answer. If you had, you would probably find that you change it from incorrect to correct more than the other way around. The issue is that pain is more memorable than pleasure, especially when the pleasure is an expectation. So you remember changing from correct to incorrect more readily and it seems to happen more frequently. That's the point and the results from the studies of the first instinct fallacy.
I took part in a memory study which involved being exposed to several arbitrary pairs of photos like, say, a pine cone and a cork notice board, and was then asked later to recall the second on being presented with the first. This procedure cycle was repeated about four times. At first in my effort to get a high score I tried to force myself into being a camera efficiently snapping and filing each pair of images for future retrieval - and did rather poorly. I then changed my tactic or energy focus and fabricated a connection between the two objects, examples of which I still remember, such as an apple and a camel (feed the apple to the camel), a bottle of wine and a comb (going to need that comb after a night with the wine), scored almost 100%, enjoyed myself, and briefly puzzled the experimenter. Photographic memory - who needs it?
+Chris G This is an excellent memory technique. It's the reason for my well above average memory, as I'm always "linking" things together. By creating more "chains" I'm increasing the likelihood of stumbling over one of those chains when I need them. It's also the main reason for me being mostly unable to explain how I made a certain connection or remembered something. It's often a long and winding path.
+Simen Bjelland Glad we share that experience, but since my comment I came across this in New Scientist: "And Stephen Wiltshire, in the UK, is able to fly above a city in a helicopter and then spend the next seven days drawing what he saw, window by window and tree by tree. If you take a digital photograph from the helicopter you can superimpose it on his drawing." (16 Jan 2016). So despite what the presenter in the vid says, what else could this be but an example of photographic memory? It would be interesting to see how the same guy performs in the test I describe. I think I did well in it only when I intervened with my own creation so the pictures became mine in a sense. Maybe this guy doesn't need to.
What? You can't apply the Monty Hall Problem to this. You don't pick your answers at random in tests and you don't get shown a wrong answer before you would change. Neither is the Monty Hall Problem a product of the First Instinct Fallacy.
I think the classical music "myth" is about babies listening to that music. Such as this video. ua-cam.com/video/t3Cb1qwCUvI/v-deo.html Dylan, the kid in the video, was raised listening to classical music all the time and he has a perfect ear, knows multiple languages as well as plays multiple instruments. Rick Beato ,the uploader, has a video explaining his techniques for nurturing his son to become a genius, very interesting and definitely worth a look if you want to have children.
The Mozart Effect is long lasting, I believe I guess it works because people often listen to simple pop music, wich is always "more of the same" Then when listening to Mozart, as the brain is always trying to find patterns, it is forced to work harder to understand the ever new patterns and the different way instruments are played, so it is true and have long effects, not on intelligence per say, but on processing power (maybe?)
+Marcos Socram By that logic, listening to some fast paced music would be most effective. Genres such as EDM would function better than a slower paced Mozart song due to there being much more to process in the same amount of time. Regardless though, your logic is incorrect. Listening to certain types of music will have no long term effect on your mental capabilities.
Depends. Even if it's faster, if it's another "more of the same" song then we won't really improve further than just perceive more efficiently what we already listened to. (is always the same pace, instruments and time of placement of samples, also, divided in two, which the second part is the copy of the first and comes after exponentially acelerating snares. We can always predict when everything will stop, start counting, set the drop then copy the start, at this same sequence, literally) It doesn't help much on learning new paths of reasoning, which songs with different structures can provide, thus, the reason that pop don't make us brighter, unless the DJ/producer is literally creative enought. Nobody is wrong though, we all don't understand how we really learn... So all we can do is rely on more logic theories anyways
Spin793 By the way, check out a nice pop/edm/trap song Jailo & Kappa Kavi - Kawaii Magic I guess it can be POP because it repeats the same samples a lot and has cloned parts that follow usual formulas. But the guys that made it are really creative on placements and rythim changes. Try a math problem after listening this
Hmm, I guess not all of these practices are outright wrong just because they don't do what they are "expected" to do.... Sometimes, these things do help, if not in a major way, like for an exam that tells you "no erasures" meaning your first answer is your final answer, people who are too reliant on double guessing their answers might find this exam troublesome... or even extend it to them being ambivalent in making any decisions in life... Sometimes, there are truths in myths and misconceptions, and sometimes there are merits in the little benefits that these things provide.....because it's the little things that matters...most often... ^_^
+Kurtis F I've found that I can build up a kind of resistance to music with lyrics and a high tempo. I created a playlist for studying six months ago, and it's gradually been evolving into a more fast paced list. On another note, I can find myself listening to a song on repeat for literally hours. I'm usually able to recall what I did when I hear the song again.
Awesome videos! I was just wondering if you know weather your finger ratios between index and ring finger suggest more testosterone exposure in the womb? I personally can't find any evidence of this (when I check people lol) and my index is smaller than my ring finger (male and apparently more testosterone) and also some women have had more exposure than men? It could be that the study may not have done enough tests or maybe it's a myth. Thanks for any help :)!
Video games do have a positive effect on brain health: www.alzheimers.net/9-28-15-video-games-for-brain-health/ The caveat is that they must be games where you are required to multitask, such as a multiplayer strategy game (one with lots of stimulu to "work out" your brain)
Uhh there's an argument here. Listening to classical music makes you concentrate more on what you're doing. So, if what you're doing is... let's say, studying... It should make you more intelligent, don't you think?
+André Ribeiro I thought that it applied to plants, as it's been said to be more soothing and increase their growth (probably as opposed to thrash or serious heavy metal rock).
Great video in general! As for the games part, doesn't it depend a lot on the kind of game one plays? Like, since the whole thing about learning new skills for creative purposes helped, maybe games that require creativity would help just as well? Like, Crosswords is the dumbest possible example of a game, since it basically requires you to discover exactly what the creator of the game intended, so... yeah, not much creativity going on there.
When I saw your thumbnail, I thought: This woman looks very British. And that turned out to be correct. About Mozart: So it seems we need to listen to Mozart music ALL THE TIME to maintain an intelligence improvement. I guess that wouldn't be a big sacrifice. Personally I reduce my intelligence every evening by sipping vodka, so maybe increased intelligence is not a major goal in my life. Well, we all have our priorities.
What's the difference between a psychologist and a magician?
A magician pulls rabbits out of hats, whereas a psychologist pulls habits out of rats.
That was funny
+IMRP *groan* :)
wow
Genius
the fact that listening to Mozart works AT ALL is incredible and deserves further investigation
It just boggles me, knowing that sick mind can have vivid hallucinations, but a healthy mind can't even remember where it left the keys.
I have a near photographic memory: it takes a while to develop ;)
Lol
Wow, you are one hell of an idiot, now aren't you?
We don't remember things the same way as we observe it, and the more we look back on a certain memory, the more that memory changes, so you having a "near to photographic memory" is impossible.
Yeah. It's a joke. It's actually quite obviously a joke. So who is the idiot now? 😂
+Colin Jones (Ponder - FUHA) The one with the bad grammar is the idiot.
+Colin Jones (Ponder - FUHA) Also, if you were to take into consideration on how many idiots there are on UA-cam these days, making dumb comments, than you would know why I was correcting you and taking your comment literally.
Awesome video. Loving the puns too :)
Alltime Conspiracies what are you doing here? get out of here. you're drunk!
My first instinct was to subscribe, so I guess I'd better move along
This episode was pun-believable
Rapeoreon please don't pun-ish the comment section
Great videos!
Although i'm more math/physics oriented person i still enjoy watching your videos on psychology and as far as I know you're the only one making psychology videos.
Oh and by the way you look quite pretty :)
You should check out Crash Course Psycholgy, it's great! ;)
Lily's I love Crash Course Psychology! I would recommend checking out their astronomy course too.
Aren't the Green brothers great?And thanks for the tip! Oh, by the way, I discovered your channel just today, and since you're here, let me tell you, I LOVE IT! It's amazing to keep the videos very short and concise. Greetings from Tunisia. :)
Lily's Yes. Second your opinions on both Green brothers and this channel :)
On an unrelated note, and if you don;t mind me asking, how is life and weather in Tunisia currently. Actually I am scheduled to work there for few months, so was curious. :)
Mukesh Kumar Oh, I don't mind.Life is alright, I guess. It depends on where you are, really. Life in the capital is just like any other place, nothing special. The weather currently is quite cold, obviously, but in few months it'll start being very very hot. Good luck :)
Then what's the proper name for a "photographic memory"? Because my memory works with pictures and is often so clear that when I did tests in school I could pretty much re-read the book with the facts from pictures in my memory, and if not that then at least remember what the pages looked like, where on the page the answer was, and by remembering that I could remember the answer. That's what I've always called a "photographic memory". Sure, it's not flawless, but I do remember in pictures and I seem to usually remember things a lot better than others thanks to this. What is the correct term for it?
KreeZafi Eidetic Memory
+KreeZafi You could say that your memory is more spatially oriented.
here is an article at Slate you may find interesting.
\www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2006/04/kaavya_syndrome.html
what licence number was on the third red car you saw on last Monday?
I'd say visual memory. Being a cognitive system it might be developed in different degree in different people although I am not a neurologist so check it out :).
I love the moans with the puns
2:33 "sew smart"
I'm a Brazilian psychologist and I love your videos. They are amazing!! =D
Diego Rabelo Thanks so much! :)
is brain damage permanent ?
Maicol Diaz not necessarily. it depends on what exactly got damaged, how, how healthy you are, when proper care is received. many stroke victims have improved at least a littile with therapy and so on.
"Major chord" (an F major 6th chord is played)
"Minor chord" (an Eb major 7th chord is played)
Riiiiiight....
+Skutieos7 Lol. It's a good video, but we know minor chords when we hear 'em, huh? haha!
"Musicy stuff I should understand from playing an instrument but I don't"
Maybe it's a Gm b6 chord ;-)
If anyone legitimately heard it as a Gm b6 in 3rd inversion I'll personally suck their dick
I did hear it as a Gm b6, but it's probably more because of the suggestion in the video of "minor chord" when the chord was played rather than what the chord sounded like in and of itself.
You say there's no such thing as a photographic memory, but I would argue that that term is a rather accurate one. I once needed to recall a chart my operating systems instructor forgot to record five days prior that was drawn in a certain shape, and had around 50 values. Without thinking I needed to retain the specifics of that chart, when the instructor mentioned he would have to start over from the beginning, I mentioned that I might remember what was written. I closed my eyes for a bit, and redrew the chart from memory. Thinking such a thing impossible, the instructor checked the numbers and it was all correct. (The numbers in the chart followed a formula, so verifiable.)
I could visualize the chalkboard. I could visualize where the instructor was standing, the amount of light that poured in from the windows. And when I visualized the chalkboard, I could read off the numbers.
What was the weather that day? What clothes were you wearing, and what was the instructor wearing?
You can have a great memory, but a "photographic" memory would preserve highly accurate details about every thought and observation you ever had.
JogInTheFog There are some people, though rare, who can do that. Research can't always explain everything. All the same great video.
@@practicaldeduction6862 I know this is a 5yo comment, but no. Human brains don't have absolutely perfect recall, let alone recording of information. People with superb eidetic memory certainly have _vastly_ superior abilities in these areas, but it is by no means perfect. People with eidetic memory may remember what clothes, or what weather, or even pretty small details about certain moments from months or even years in the past.
But to recall the _exact_ positions that a raindrop fell on your window twenty years ago in an unremarkable downpour, for example, is practically impossible. Our brains only record and recall what we train them to. Some people have greater ability than others, but none of them are perfectly photographic.
I wonder why the "Mozart effect" doesn't work with minor chords. Im a musician and I LOVE minor chords. They add substance and richness. I would love to learn more about this.
I have a pornographic memory, I remember all the porn I watch
You know what, that might be a thing. I remember porn videos I watched 10 years ago !
I have this problem where I guess the right answer, then I change it to the wrong one.
This is constant.
I always thought that Mozart's music was generally cheerful and optimistic and that this improved a person's mood and led to better test scores.
I Would like You to elaborate on the Classical Music theme. As I understand You:
1) Spatial recognition improved WHILE listning to classical music. With no lasting effect.
2) The spatial recognition furthermore was only present in major keys and NOT in minor keys.
Now a harmonic triad consists of:
a) The root.
b) The third - more about that later.
c) The perfect fifth is tuned precisely to the root 1.5 times higher. I.e. the soundwaves will coincide after precisely 2 wavelengths of the root. That is the fifth is 3/2 of the root.
A major third is 5/4 of the root. This means that the sound wave of the major third coincides precisely with the root after 4 vibrations of the root.
Interesting: Seems (to me) to be that fase does not really matter.
To me it seems like the minor third is altnatively "catching up/being caught up" with the root (or its mate the octave above) and the fifth.
Help me out here, as I am trying to understand - something - don't know precisely what!
Hmm... I keep seeing Tacos in Vanessa's videos, such as at 1:36. Jake from Vsauce3 is so obsessed with Tacos that he has an entire talk show based around them, called Talk-o time. Coincidence? I. THINK. NOT.
1:08 Vanessa isn't very clear here. She says picture memories aren't encoded the way they are recalled (?!). And she uses "Eidetic memory" but doesn't define it. One definition is that it's a synonym for photographic memory. And certainly there are people with exceptional memory, even the memory of images. Stephen Wiltshire is an example: ua-cam.com/video/x3IMP0fwlCM/v-deo.html or ua-cam.com/video/xcX-Nvm-wmE/v-deo.html
He draws cities like London, Rome, and New York in detailed panorama after only a brief helicopter flight.
I suspect Vanessa means our minds are incapable of retrieving an image and then inspecting it on an internal viewer. It doesn't _seem_ like I can do that, but I'm not so sure she proved it doesn't happen.
Great video!!! And i really appreciate the subtitles, thank you!!!
I have a phonographic memory. Uneven and it breaks easily...
I have a pornographic memory. I'm just a pervert.
lol At first glance I read *pornographic memory* instead of phonographic memory and got a chuckle out of it :)
Just found this channel now and its my absolute favourite!!
That is interesting, and it does make sense. I do wonder about the first instinct one though. I have found that second guessing myself often causes more harm than good. Maybe it is just that it feels worse so it is more memorable. There is also the fact that changing an answer causes an increase in stress, especially when changing it over and over. Increased stress levels certainly lower decision making skills. Great video though.
So teaching myself Hangul, Video Graphics & movie editing should help me in the long run. that's good to know.
Hahaha, you're so 'pun'ny :P
I love watching these, as I studied BA Psychology at university.
I have not yet applied it to anything, but keeping the interesting facts relevant is always good.
Also, Aussie, Aussie, Aussie!!!
I don't quite follow in your falsification of photographic memory. Are you saying that simply because our mind does not encode information like a camera people do not remember things as an image even if they have 100% accuracy of everything in their field of vision at that time? If that's the case isn't that a bit of an over literization?
In my understanding, it's not about people not being able to recall things in their memory through images. Our own processes of recollection often manifests some degree of visual representation--that is, as an image of the initial "source material." The idea is that despite our capacity to recall things in images, these images are _always_ imperfect representations of the actual experience/subject. And this also applies to people with eidetic memories who despite their excellent memories are also never _fully_ accurate in all details of an image. If I remember correctly, this is at least partly due to the fact that other unrelated memories can affect our general recollection of a particular instance. So essentially there's no "100% accuracy" when we recall things through images in our heads. This is in contrast with pulling out a photograph that 'perfectly' captures every detail, and does so every time.
applewitheveryone Hmm, fair enough I'm sure the studies have sufficiently found limitations in even the most photographic of memory.
The Great Gyrofluff It's because the brain tends to filter out or disregard details we don't think are important. Which, of course, makes mystery stories possible :)
Think back on your earliest memory. Can you see what you were doing in it?
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If you can see yourself, how can it be a memory?
studies have shown that sometimes other genres of music may also have a similar effect as mozart
As a psychology student, I actually wasn't aware of the first instinct fallacy. I think I might keep doing it though just because its much faster than going through my answers again and most of the ones I had problems with I won't be able to make a better guess on. I will go back though if the prof slipped up and put the answer in another question, hasn't happened much but its happened enough times.
how come i can memorize the sequence of notes on a piano (both left and right hand) in a very short period of time and remember them for years but with studying i cant remember anything?
Because you have a passion for music but not for studying.
thank you smart people of youtube!
I never really fell for the first instinct fallacy, I constantly second guessed myself and me being unsure of an answer usually meant trying harder to figure it out rather then trying to pick one over another, however my parents always made a big deal about how I should rely on my first instinct.
Actually there is a person with photographic memory, but it developed as result of head trauma as a child.
He was playing baseball with his friends, and was struck in head by baseball. The fall onto pavement didn't help his already damaged skull.
Since then he has memory comparable to a camera.
He once rode over the new York city skyline in a helicopter, and from memory a week latwe, drew an identical image as the video camera recording it did.
anything can stimulate brain cell growth if you enjoy it. the more you enjoy it, and the more complex it is, the more brain cells it grows. but only if you derive pleasure from it.
New favourite channel! It's pretty pun-tastic
Can you make a video explaining why those terrible puns with the sound of people booing pleases my mind so much?
3:05
So if that means that if my first instict was to click away I probably shouldn't do that, then if my first instinct is to keep watchin the video then I SHOULD click away?
Good video. But that's not a minor chord at 1:06...
it doesn't work when the major chords are replaced with minor chords...... Well that wouldn't be classical music then would it? That's like saying the blues didn't make people tap their foot when the tritone is taken out.
At 3:06, was I the only one that tried to remove the speck in the top left corner?
I think this woman is gorgeous and very smart. That is all i have to say
Lol i has a dream where my building was on fire that was so vivid i _felt_ the heat. Wtf
@@edonis2787 Huh?
"Participants from 60 to 90 years old" means no one with a young brain was given a chance to "keep their brain young". So the initial premise isn't even addressed.
"crossword puzzles" technically a game, but hardly the same as regularly playing Minecraft or Kerbal Space Program or DOOM or any active sport, games that require repeated quick thinking and creative problem solving.
16?
I re-watched the video with captions turned on. She does indeed say "60", not "16".
Mineporn requires no brain. A watermelon could play it. Also, learn how the neural tissue ages ( if it does, it's hard to day with certainty ) before you spew nonsense like this
miloradvlaovic The initial hypothesis was "Playing video games prevents aging of the brain from occurring in the first place."
But the experiment was based on the very different premise "Playing video games reverses aging of the brain that has already occurred."
Since these two things are very much not the same, we can see the initial premise was never addressed in the study.
I had a psychology professor that once recommended that students not change their first guesses on exams because the first guess is more likely to be correct. Shows what he knew...
On an npr article they say that in some studies it lasts for average an hour
Fascinating videos. I really appreciate the bibliography.
3:00 - "That makes changing right answers to wrong more memorable..."
Is this the kind of reason that makes us believe in amulets? X)
Isn't the logic of the first instinct fallacy more because, for example, in an ABCD scenario changing from a wrong answer to a right answer is more common because from wrong to right has a 33% success rate but right to wrong has 0%? Where do the wrong to wrong changes fit in the hierarchy?
Amazing! I'd really like to see you make a video about Eidetic Memory now though
Very interesting Information and facts. Thank you.
Your charisma and speech take me to another dimension, too. Greetings from Ecuador.
which mozart sonata was this, at the beginning of the video?
So is eidetic memory genetic? I remember reading an article about a guy who got his memory to a crazy level purely by training. Maybe it was a TED talk...
Great video! I love the actual explanation on how the myths have been demystified
As soon as I saw u on Jake's video I knew you two would make a great couple, Loving the videos.
less puns, or use of better ones ... and definitely keep up the accent, it's awesome
I found the jokes very punny...
About the photographic memory, whenever I see for example lyrics in a lyric video and layer on want to sing that song its almost like I am watching the video again in my head. That's just one example but I think photographic memory is real.
I love this vid, so many amazing puns
Actually some of us have surprisingly accurate photographic memories, to the point where you would be shocked by the amount of minute details given. And mozart is VERY healing, studies given in schools have shown the proof of this. Student behavior and grades improve dramatically when mozart is playing in the background while they are doing their work. Unfortunately, for psychologists who become too wrapped up in their book studies and dont look any further than that, this video does not prove a thing. I've often wondered why psychologists have the highest suicide rate of all the medical professions, and im pretty sure i know why. All those degrees on their wall, but they dont know how to look you in the face when they are speaking to you. A lot of assumptions really do create a small, closed mind, resulting in small minded thinking which does not ever come to a full conclusion because their is ALWAYS more to know.
hi, why if i try first time, for exasmple a track in a game, the first is the best and after i take more error? (sorry for my english, i'm learning it)
Does the First Instinct Fallacy have anything to do with the "Door Number 3" phenomenon, aka: The Monty Hall Problem? The theory behind the Monty Hall Problem is as follows:
"- There are 3 doors, behind which are two goats and a car.
- You pick a door (call it door A). You’re hoping for the car of course.
- Monty Hall, the game show host, examines the other doors (B & C) and always opens one of them with a goat (Both doors might have goats; he’ll randomly pick one to open)
Here’s the game: Do you stick with door A (original guess) or switch to the other unopened door? Does it matter?"
(betterexplained.com/articles/understanding-the-monty-hall-problem/)
Apparently if you switch doors, you'll have a better chance at getting the car.
I don't think so. Monty Hall Problem is purely mathematical, while when people change answers, they have no new information that helps them bias towards any answer. It's mostly just on how people think when they change answer, resulting in the First Instinct Fallacy due to loss aversion.
Yes, your odds increase after the first door is opened and you then change your original choice.
in 8th grade a guy i know wasn't working and just doodling in his workbook. the teacher called him out on it. my friend said he had a photographic memory and could remember everything written on the whiteboard. there was like 500 words on the board and he looked at it for about 2 seconds. somehow the teacher believed him >_
All the puns were happily overwhelming- the "groan" track was also particularly enjoyable. ^.^
Not sure if it would be confirmation bias, but for a while in school I started putting a period next to my "second guess" and didn't change my answer and the first guess was right.
I love how the little dude says hadouken in Chinese at 2:11!
Does it just have to be Mozart. Like Vivaldi, Debussy, Camille Saint-saens, etc. ??
No just music you enjoy that is calm
hyesun doesn't even have to be classical just music you enjoy. when you feel "in tune" to the music you're listening to that's the "Mozart effect" kicking in
I always go for my first instinct on tests. They are always correct...
The best example I can do is that in one social studies test I did on the English civil war, I didn't learn the answer to a question, but I got it right.... It was multiple choice, and all the questions I got right were multiple choice.
Love your channel I could listen to you talk all day
So, never mind increasing your IQ or whatever cognitive ability, does solving calculus problems, playing chess, sudoku, crosswords, whatever help with keeping our brains in shape? Or is it about novelty, learning new things and stuff? Musical instruments? Nootropics? Damn, I'm far too concerned I think.
Solving any sort of problem by comparing it to a different puzzle in an apparently different domain builds or strengthens connections, which keeps the brain in shape.
Could you make a video about gullibility?
why do you look to the left when you say 'click away', when the other videos are on the right?
what about 'hyperthymesia?' Isn't that similar to having a photographical memory?
I love the cheap background laughs :)
*applauds*
when I read a book, I picture it as a movie in my head, which is actually moving. So I'm dreaming while reading..
binge watching these xD
What if you have bad self esteem and you always think you're wrong does this change the first instant fallacy.
Okay firstly I didn't believe any of these and secondly when it comes to the first instinct one I greatly benefit from sticking to my initial hunch as 90% of the times that I do doubt myself and change the answers I've previously made it turns out that my first guess was correct so... Take that
+Herohammer Studios You haven't actually recorded all the times you changed your answer. If you had, you would probably find that you change it from incorrect to correct more than the other way around. The issue is that pain is more memorable than pleasure, especially when the pleasure is an expectation. So you remember changing from correct to incorrect more readily and it seems to happen more frequently. That's the point and the results from the studies of the first instinct fallacy.
tiny sample size =/= accurate
I love you starting the paragraph with: I don't believe these myths just to go on saying that you do believe the 4th myth.
I took part in a memory study which involved being exposed to several arbitrary pairs of photos like, say, a pine cone and a cork notice board, and was then asked later to recall the second on being presented with the first. This procedure cycle was repeated about four times. At first in my effort to get a high score I tried to force myself into being a camera efficiently snapping and filing each pair of images for future retrieval - and did rather poorly. I then changed my tactic or energy focus and fabricated a connection between the two objects, examples of which I still remember, such as an apple and a camel (feed the apple to the camel), a bottle of wine and a comb (going to need that comb after a night with the wine), scored almost 100%, enjoyed myself, and briefly puzzled the experimenter. Photographic memory - who needs it?
+Chris G This is an excellent memory technique. It's the reason for my well above average memory, as I'm always "linking" things together. By creating more "chains" I'm increasing the likelihood of stumbling over one of those chains when I need them. It's also the main reason for me being mostly unable to explain how I made a certain connection or remembered something. It's often a long and winding path.
+Simen Bjelland Glad we share that experience, but since my comment I came across this in New Scientist: "And Stephen Wiltshire, in the UK, is able to fly above a city in a helicopter and then spend the next seven days drawing what he saw, window by window and tree by tree. If you take a digital photograph from the helicopter you can superimpose it on his drawing." (16 Jan 2016). So despite what the presenter in the vid says, what else could this be but an example of photographic memory? It would be interesting to see how the same guy performs in the test I describe. I think I did well in it only when I intervened with my own creation so the pictures became mine in a sense. Maybe this guy doesn't need to.
I am madly in love with this woman. Which, if I watch these long enough, I’m sure I’ll come to learn is just a psychological issue I need to resolve.
can you do a video on the effect of programming on the brain
My 5th-grade teacher told the class repeatedly to "go with our gut" when we are unsure of the answer!
At 2:42 I thought you were going to talk about Hitler changing the colors of newborns from blue to pink and vice versa.
Explain why I can recognise flags and countries capitals so easily and fast
An addition onto the First Instinct Fallacy, is the Monty Hall Problem.
What? You can't apply the Monty Hall Problem to this. You don't pick your answers at random in tests and you don't get shown a wrong answer before you would change.
Neither is the Monty Hall Problem a product of the First Instinct Fallacy.
2:18 THAT is the catch. I have to USE the skill CREATIVELY to get the benefit. But my YT account is, by LAW, the center of my life.
I think the classical music "myth" is about babies listening to that music. Such as this video. ua-cam.com/video/t3Cb1qwCUvI/v-deo.html
Dylan, the kid in the video, was raised listening to classical music all the time and he has a perfect ear, knows multiple languages as well as plays multiple instruments. Rick Beato ,the uploader, has a video explaining his techniques for nurturing his son to become a genius, very interesting and definitely worth a look if you want to have children.
May I have your Flash paper cutout? Thanks for the vids!!
Uhhh why is the "major chord followed by a minor chord" segment actually sounding two minor chords?
I guess that Flash pun was about a camera flash? The thing is, the Flash is actually exceptionally smart so I was confused about what the joke was :p
Thank you, I like you videos. Well done!
Also my 2 years old son really likes your videos :)
The Mozart Effect is long lasting, I believe
I guess it works because people often listen to simple pop music, wich is always "more of the same"
Then when listening to Mozart, as the brain is always trying to find patterns, it is forced to work harder to understand the ever new patterns and the different way instruments are played, so it is true and have long effects, not on intelligence per say, but on processing power (maybe?)
+Marcos Socram no
+Marcos Socram
By that logic, listening to some fast paced music would be most effective. Genres such as EDM would function better than a slower paced Mozart song due to there being much more to process in the same amount of time.
Regardless though, your logic is incorrect. Listening to certain types of music will have no long term effect on your mental capabilities.
Depends. Even if it's faster, if it's another "more of the same" song then we won't really improve further than just perceive more efficiently what we already listened to. (is always the same pace, instruments and time of placement of samples, also, divided in two, which the second part is the copy of the first and comes after exponentially acelerating snares. We can always predict when everything will stop, start counting, set the drop then copy the start, at this same sequence, literally) It doesn't help much on learning new paths of reasoning, which songs with different structures can provide, thus, the reason that pop don't make us brighter, unless the DJ/producer is literally creative enought.
Nobody is wrong though, we all don't understand how we really learn... So all we can do is rely on more logic theories anyways
Spin793 By the way, check out a nice pop/edm/trap song
Jailo & Kappa Kavi - Kawaii Magic
I guess it can be POP because it repeats the same samples a lot and has cloned parts that follow usual formulas. But the guys that made it are really creative on placements and rythim changes. Try a math problem after listening this
Marcos Socram
Will do.
Hmm, I guess not all of these practices are outright wrong just because they don't do what they are "expected" to do....
Sometimes, these things do help, if not in a major way, like for an exam that tells you "no erasures" meaning your first answer is your final answer, people who are too reliant on double guessing their answers might find this exam troublesome... or even extend it to them being ambivalent in making any decisions in life...
Sometimes, there are truths in myths and misconceptions, and sometimes there are merits in the little benefits that these things provide.....because it's the little things that matters...most often... ^_^
every single time I've changed, I've gone from right to wrong.
every time.
I still remember a photo I took in my brain from 4 years ago
I find non-lyrical music helps me study, but as soon as I listen to music with lyrics it becomes a distraction.
+Kurtis F I've found that I can build up a kind of resistance to music with lyrics and a high tempo. I created a playlist for studying six months ago, and it's gradually been evolving into a more fast paced list.
On another note, I can find myself listening to a song on repeat for literally hours. I'm usually able to recall what I did when I hear the song again.
Bad puns just makes the video more memorable!
Awesome videos! I was just wondering if you know weather your finger ratios between index and ring finger suggest more testosterone exposure in the womb? I personally can't find any evidence of this (when I check people lol) and my index is smaller than my ring finger (male and apparently more testosterone) and also some women have had more exposure than men? It could be that the study may not have done enough tests or maybe it's a myth. Thanks for any help :)!
Video games do have a positive effect on brain health:
www.alzheimers.net/9-28-15-video-games-for-brain-health/
The caveat is that they must be games where you are required to multitask, such as a multiplayer strategy game (one with lots of stimulu to "work out" your brain)
Multitasking isn't even real though??
Uhh there's an argument here. Listening to classical music makes you concentrate more on what you're doing. So, if what you're doing is... let's say, studying... It should make you more intelligent, don't you think?
+André Ribeiro I thought that it applied to plants, as it's been said to be more soothing and increase their growth (probably as opposed to thrash or serious heavy metal rock).
What about children or infants who listen to Mozart?
Great video in general! As for the games part, doesn't it depend a lot on the kind of game one plays? Like, since the whole thing about learning new skills for creative purposes helped, maybe games that require creativity would help just as well? Like, Crosswords is the dumbest possible example of a game, since it basically requires you to discover exactly what the creator of the game intended, so... yeah, not much creativity going on there.
When I saw your thumbnail, I thought: This woman looks very British. And that turned out to be correct. About Mozart: So it seems we need to listen to Mozart music ALL THE TIME to maintain an intelligence improvement. I guess that wouldn't be a big sacrifice. Personally I reduce my intelligence every evening by sipping vodka, so maybe increased intelligence is not a major goal in my life. Well, we all have our priorities.
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