Was always curious as to what constitutes you to have a photographic memory. Can you train yourself to have one?
Ever since I started getting good grades (I changed my study habits) people have been saying I have a photographical
memory however I feel like I dont b/c to me its just the way I learn and its not a huge academic advantage. (The way I study is that
I rewrite stuff over and over again in the same notebook, on exams if I dont know it right away first thing I always do is picture the same
notebook, and try to find the page that would have the relevant information to answer the question, try to picture what I wrote down and the bits and bits
that I remember can piece sentences together for me or remind me facts.


This is not a troll thread btw.

That's called studying, not having a photographic memory.

on an exam you follow the same protocol that I do?

Edit:
And is it possible to train yourself to have a photographic memory.



This post was edited by impulse155 on Dec 18 2011 09:15pm

You have an unorthadox way of studying, but the way it actually works is much different. Someone with photographic memory would be able to glance once at a page of paper and be able to process and remember what was on it long after they stopped looking, with detail hundreds of times greater than the average person. Not every case of it is the same either. Some remember words, some remember images, numbers, sounds, etc. And the general term is Eidetic memory. If you could remember the words without the intense repetition, then it could be photographic memory



No, but you can drastically improve your visual memory with years of conditioning. The average person can remember about 7 things in their short-term memory, but this number grows logarithmically with how much we can compress that information with conditioning and semantic encoding.

People just merely say that because they choose to.

When I think about it the word visual describes what I remember a lot better than photographical. What do you actually do to increase your short term memory?

I have somewhat of a photographic memory... i can pull up like graphs and diagrams in my head but it's not like savant status

I remember things in bits

for example some things I remember by recalling a lecture situation; I see the blackboard with the drawings/text etc., but it can go wrong
same applies for text book diagrams. I can't recall too long bits of text, but I can visualise the text pattern of the page (how long paragraphs, some bolded words here and there)

problem is I don't have such memories from everything

This post was edited by Ocen on Dec 19 2011 01:56pm

I noticed i can keep picture memories along with the thoughts i had in that moment or what people said to me in that moment.

After the sequence happening, to keep it mind just simply replay the sequence in your mind 2-3 times and then you'll be able to fully remember it.

Everyone learns differently, obviously you are lean towards visual memorization.

I reserve the term "photographic memory" to those with genius ability. I.e. looking at several thousand words or bits of data once and being able to spit it back out verbatim.