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that when you want to get something back out of memory
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people tend to give up too soon.
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It turns out that there's a lot of stuff that's in your memory
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but it needs work to extract;
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it needs various sort of searching strategies.
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One study asked people who were considerably older than you
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to remember their high school classmates.
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And in the first pass people were terrible.
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Maybe they had a couple of friends they kept in touch with.
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Otherwise, pretty bad.
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And this is a good experiment
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because you could use high school yearbooks