Does Television Contribute to Loss of Memory?
Question by z3ro: Does television contribute to loss of memory?
I have heard several people offer opinions on what they may think causes symptoms such as memory loss, having trouble remembering words, concentration problems. Many opinions seem to point to over stimulation. (Television, pornography, music, alcohol) At any rate, younger people who have had less exposure to these stimulations, (cumulatively) seemed to be troubled less by their effects, whereas older people who have had more cumulative exposure to over stimulation tend to exude more of its symptoms, assuming they are the cause. Also I would like to point out that certain people tend to be more sensitive to these influences than others. Any thoughts? Does anyone agree or disagree?
Best answer:
Answer by Hope
At some point in past months, I heard someone speak on just this subject. A contrast was made between the days when our country was young, back a couple hundred years – and viewing that time against our current society.
Think of a time when “news” was passed byword of mouth, or possibly by a page or two of handset type for a newspaper. The “entertainment center” in the home was a simple book case, and the books on that shelf were well read. (While I have forgotten the exact quote, I recall it was something like)
The input that the average person of that time took in over an entire year would equal the amount of information and words that come at you and me in just a single day.
The point I want to make is that in earlier generations the number off words a person heard or read in a day was far fewer than in our own time of now.
How in the world, can anyone today recall even what input came across their brain in just the last hour? To make that point, let’s say you turn on the TV for a single hour, watching whatever comes across the screen. Now, as that hour ends, turn off the TV and recite, in any order, the products advertised in the commercials that were aired. Could you do that?
Is how well you did on recalling the advertisements a reflection on your “memory loss”? Or might you chalk it up to “too much input”, having to choose which is most important to recall?
TV contributes only a portion of all the words coming at us today, we have printed information, phones, texting, and the internet, I-pods, radios in our cars blasting out more words set to music. For us the input is nearly constant. HOW can anyone recall it all?
For me, yes, the information overload does contribute to my loss of memory.
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