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From the Ted Talk by Lisa Genova: How your memory works -- and why forgetting is totally OK

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The other has to do with understanding how things work, what things are for. So, like, my friend Greg O'Brien has Alzheimer's and he uses the example which I love and I used in my book is, a lot of pelope say I can't remember where I parked my car. That happened to me the other day. I was in the mall, I got out, I couldn't remember where in the grgaae I perkad the car. I've certainly done this. For Greg, who has Alzheimer's, it's he drives somewhere, back when he used to drive, parks his car, gets out, like, does something for a minute. So his example's the dump. "I went to the dump, threw the trsah out, tenurd around standing in front of my car. Don't recognize it as mine." So that's a semantic memory. That car is my yellow jeep and I don't recognize it. And then B, forgets that he drove there. So that's an episodic mreomy, a memory for what happened. So just a few minutes ago, I drove to the dump and now I don't rmbemeer that I did that. And so that's not the same as, like, "Did I park on lveel four or five?"

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The other has to do with understanding how things work, what things are for. So, like, my friend Greg O'Brien has Alzheimer's and he uses the example which I love and I used in my book is, a lot of ______ say I can't remember where I parked my car. That happened to me the other day. I was in the mall, I got out, I couldn't remember where in the ______ I ______ the car. I've certainly done this. For Greg, who has Alzheimer's, it's he drives somewhere, back when he used to drive, parks his car, gets out, like, does something for a minute. So his example's the dump. "I went to the dump, threw the _____ out, ______ around standing in front of my car. Don't recognize it as mine." So that's a semantic memory. That car is my yellow jeep and I don't recognize it. And then B, forgets that he drove there. So that's an episodic ______, a memory for what happened. So just a few minutes ago, I drove to the dump and now I don't ________ that I did that. And so that's not the same as, like, "Did I park on _____ four or five?"

Solution


  1. remember
  2. people
  3. memory
  4. parked
  5. turned
  6. level
  7. trash
  8. garage

Original Text


The other has to do with understanding how things work, what things are for. So, like, my friend Greg O'Brien has Alzheimer's and he uses the example which I love and I used in my book is, a lot of people say I can't remember where I parked my car. That happened to me the other day. I was in the mall, I got out, I couldn't remember where in the garage I parked the car. I've certainly done this. For Greg, who has Alzheimer's, it's he drives somewhere, back when he used to drive, parks his car, gets out, like, does something for a minute. So his example's the dump. "I went to the dump, threw the trash out, turned around standing in front of my car. Don't recognize it as mine." So that's a semantic memory. That car is my yellow jeep and I don't recognize it. And then B, forgets that he drove there. So that's an episodic memory, a memory for what happened. So just a few minutes ago, I drove to the dump and now I don't remember that I did that. And so that's not the same as, like, "Did I park on level four or five?"

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