who has ever watched disney's Finding nemo and not gotten a kick out of one of the main characters, dory? no one that i've ever met. whenever i think of dory, i think p. sherman, wallaby way, sydney, the only phrase that she ever seems to remember. i also think of how loving and sweet and innocent she is. learning about short and long term memory in my psychology class has given me a different persepctive on the lovable blue tang. her inability to remember anything five seconds after it happens is classifies as short term or working memory. however, she turns her way of thinking around when she is given a specific address to remember. that's not the only thing she remembers, though. she also knows what their goal is: to find nemo. before she met the other main character, marlin, dory had never been able to commit anything to long term memory. however, she assigned meaning to the address, and developed a relationship with nemo through marlin, which helped her to commit those things into her subconscious and allowed her to pull them out whenever she was asked. they say that the best way to learn something is to apply it, and dory is 'living' proof of that.
here's a clip of the favorite family feature:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lk3ZxmptZy8
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