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Un pódcast sobre fotografías y memoria

Nombre:Fecha:

Una presentadora y dos invitados debaten si grabarlo todo con el teléfono debilita lo que realmente recordamos.

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Actitud, opinión e inferencia

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  1. What is Callum's attitude to the suggestion that phones damage memory?
    • a) He thinks the claim is completely false
    • b) He accepts there is an effect but thinks it is limited
    • c) He is certain it will become a serious problem
    • d) He believes it affects only older people
  2. According to Callum, why do people remember fewer details of photographed objects?
    • a) They forget to take the photograph home
    • b) They prefer to look at screens
    • c) They are too busy choosing a good angle
    • d) They rely on the camera and attend less closely
  3. When does the effect Callum describes disappear?
    • a) When people concentrate on a specific detail
    • b) When people photograph only family members
    • c) When the photographs are printed
    • d) When people take fewer than ten pictures
  4. What point does Tamsin make from her experience with old prints?
    • a) Most families have lost their oldest photographs
    • b) Printed pictures fade faster than digital files
    • c) Stories told later keep a memory alive more than the image does
    • d) People prefer photographs without any people in them
  5. What is Callum more concerned about than the number of photographs?
    • a) Photographs take up too much storage
    • b) People delete too many pictures
    • c) Cameras are becoming too complicated
    • d) Nobody sorts the images or looks at them again
  6. Why does Tamsin say her advice "sounds odd"?
    • a) She has never thrown anything away herself
    • b) Someone in her job would be expected to keep everything
    • c) She does not trust families to follow it
    • d) Her archive is already too small
  7. What is Callum's reservation about apps that resurface old pictures?
    • a) They are too expensive for most people
    • b) They delete the ordinary pictures automatically
    • c) They may give a one-sided, flattering view of the past
    • d) They make people less willing to take photographs
  8. Why does Tamsin value ordinary days?
    • a) They show how life was really lived, which historians will want to know
    • b) They are easier to photograph than special occasions
    • c) They make the best stories for grandchildren
    • d) They are usually forgotten by the people living them

Escucha los detalles

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  1. Callum Reid is a cognitive ___.
  2. People bring Tamsin old prints in ___.
  3. Tamsin recommends a selection of ___ pictures with names and dates on the back.
  4. Callum suggests finding out what you can recall a ___ later.
  5. Tamsin asks listeners to speak to the ___ relative they know.

Respuestas

Actitud, opinión e inferencia

  1. b) He accepts there is an effect but thinks it is limitedSe resiste a usar la palabra damaging y dice que el efecto es pequeño y puede desaparecer.
  2. d) They rely on the camera and attend less closelyDice que le encargamos la tarea de recordar a la cámara, así que prestamos menos atención.
  3. a) When people concentrate on a specific detailAcercarse a un rasgo concreto obliga a la gente a mirar con atención.
  4. c) Stories told later keep a memory alive more than the image doesDice que la gente recuerda la historia que se cuenta después, no el día en sí; volver a contarla mantiene vivo el recuerdo.
  5. d) Nobody sorts the images or looks at them againDice que las imágenes sin clasificar casi no valen nada porque nadie vuelve a ellas ni elige cuáles importan.
  6. b) Someone in her job would be expected to keep everythingElla trabaja con un archivo, así que resulta sorprendente que sea ella quien diga a la gente que tire cosas.
  7. c) They may give a one-sided, flattering view of the pastDice que pueden ofrecernos una versión pulida, de modo que recordamos los momentos destacados en lugar de los días normales.
  8. a) They show how life was really lived, which historians will want to knowDice que los historiadores del futuro querrán los días normales, porque esa es la vida realmente vivida.

Escucha los detalles

  1. psychologistNoor lo presenta como psicólogo cognitivo.
  2. shoeboxes / shoe boxesDice que la gente le trae cajas de zapatos con fotos antiguas.
  3. thirty / 30Menciona una selección de treinta fotografías con nombres y fechas escritos en el reverso.
  4. monthDice que veas qué eres capaz de recordar dentro de un mes.
  5. oldestDice que llames por teléfono al pariente más anciano que conozcas.

Transcripción

Noor: Welcome back to Thinking Aloud. This week we're asking whether keeping a record of everything makes us remember less. My guests are Callum Reid, a cognitive psychologist, and Tamsin Okafor, who looks after a community archive of family photographs. Callum, is our phone-filled lifestyle quietly damaging our memories?

Callum: I'd resist the word damaging. There is some evidence that people who photograph an object remember fewer of its details than people who simply look at it. The likeliest explanation is that we hand the job of remembering to the camera, so we pay less attention. But the effect is small, and it disappears if people are asked to zoom in on one particular feature, because that forces them to look properly.

Tamsin: That rings true from my side of things. People bring me shoeboxes of old prints, and they rarely remember the day a picture was taken. What they remember is the story that was told about it afterwards. It's the retelling that keeps the memory alive, not the picture itself.

Noor: So the photograph is a prompt, rather than the memory.

Callum: Precisely, and that's why I'm less worried about quantity than about what happens next. Thousands of unsorted images are almost worthless, because nobody ever returns to them. Not only do we fail to revisit them, we rarely even choose which ones matter.

Tamsin: Which is why I tell families to throw things away. It sounds odd coming from someone in my job, I know. But a selection of thirty pictures with names and dates written on the back will mean far more to a grandchild than thirty thousand files that nobody can search.

Noor: Does the technology make that kind of selection easier or harder?

Callum: Both, really. Apps that resurface old pictures can spark genuine recollection, but they sometimes feed us a polished version of the past. We may end up remembering the highlights rather than the ordinary days that made up most of our lives.

Tamsin: I'd go further. The ordinary days are exactly what future historians will want. Hardly anyone photographs a Tuesday afternoon, yet that's the life that was actually lived.

Noor: A final thought from each of you. What would you ask listeners to do this week?

Callum: Put your phone away at one event and see what you can recall a month from now. Treat it as a small experiment, not a rule.

Tamsin: Choose one photograph, ring the oldest relative you know, and ask them what was happening just outside the frame.

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