One of the most common phenomena that happen to us every day is when we enter a room, humming a tune and suddenly forgot what we want, or while we are on a call and we open the door of the fridge then forget what we were looking for. Basically opening doors suddenly make us forget, more often than not, the purpose behind why that door was opened by us in the first place! Sounds familiar? Well, science has an explanation for this. Forgetting why you entered a room is called the “Doorway Effect”, and it may reveal as much about the strengths of human memory, as it does the weaknesses, says psychologist Tom Stafford.
Here is a small story to help you explain why this happens exactly. A woman meets three builders during their lunch break. “What are you doing today?” she asks the first. “I’m putting brick after sodding brick on top of another,” sighs the first. “What are you doing today?” she asks the second. “I’m building a wall,” is the simple reply. But the third builder swells with pride when asked, and replies: “I’m building a cathedral!” The third builder might think that he is the sorted one of the lot, but nobody can build a cathedral without figuring out how to successfully put one brick on top of another like the first builder. When we carry on with the chores of the day, our attention span shifts between these levels – from our goals and ambitions, to plans and strategies, and to the lowest levels, our concrete actions. The hierarchy of action moves up and down and allows us to carry out complex behaviours.
The Doorway Effect occurs when our attention moves between these levels, and it reflects on our memory span of that moment, that is, what we are doing, and what we are about to do. So if you went to get your keys and forgot about it the moment you entered the room, what happened was that your immediate plan to get the keys was forgotten because you were already thinking about leaving the house, which was the larger plan. Somewhere in navigating this complex hierarchy the need for keys popped into mind, and your attention span shifted to other things, thus erasing the immediate action. Remember hard when you open any door now!

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wow i really can relate

Wow. I believe this

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tru tho. Still had this experience today.

interesting piece

Really interesting and educative

This is in the wrong section though.