"As they travel, they may bend, twist, or change into something else completely. One perfect example of this happening is through the childhood game of Telephone, where you start off with a simple sentence, but when that sentence gets passed down through many people, it changes into something completely different by the time it reaches the last person in line. Adults will see this happen daily at work, with their families and friends, and through social interactions."
"Unlike any other recording device, the human brain does not store things in a way that would be available for retrieval. Each individual creates an internal representation of what they have learned through their activities and reactions to their emotional and cognitive state. Therefore, when a person attempts to remember something, they will do so based on an internalized framework of previous knowledge, experience, and emotion."
Messages between people rarely travel unchanged; they bend, twist, and can become something entirely different as they pass through multiple people. The childhood game Telephone exemplifies how a simple sentence can morph dramatically by the end of a chain. Adults observe similar transformations in workplaces, families, and social interactions. The human brain functions as an active interpreter rather than a neutral relay, editing and reshaping incoming information. Memory operates reconstructively rather than as a perfect copy. Individuals form internal representations shaped by prior knowledge, experience, emotion, and cognitive state, and recall draws on these frameworks, producing modified versions when information is shared.
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