Namesake in a Sentence 🔉

1. Since Frank wanted his son to be his namesake, he gave him his first name.
2. My husband shares his father’s name, and as such, he is his namesake.
3. The college’s new library is the namesake of the billionaire who funded the building’s development.

What is another word for namesake?

: one that has the same name as another especially : one who is named after another or for whom another is named His grandson and namesake is the spit and image of him … — Robert Graves.

A namesake is a person, geographic location, building or other entity that has the same name as another or that is named after another entity that first had the name. The opposing term, referring to the original entity after which something else was named, is called an eponym.

The definition of a namesake is a person named after someone. An example of a namesake is a son given the exact same name as his father. One that is named after another.

1. Know your motivation.
2. Focus on the person you are talking to.
3. Repeat the name of the person you just met.
4. Don’t have another conversation in your head.
5. Focus on a particular feature of a new person’s face.
6. Link the new name with something you already know.
7. Connect the new name or face with a visual image.

Blame the left side of your brain. Scientists have discovered that the left side of the brain controls the verbal expression of our long-term ‘semantic’ memory which contains facts, meanings, concepts and knowledge.

If names are so important, why are they so hard to remember? Names are difficult to remember because they are arbitrary information. And humans are notoriously terrible at remembering arbitrary information. This is true whether we’re talking about telephone numbers, historical dates, or someone’s name.

First, it’s possible we don’t remember names simply because the person isn’t important to us, or we’re distracted during the introduction and not paying attention to them, or if we don’t like them (which makes our ego will our conscious brain to disregard them and their name).

Effects of disorders If the inability to recall words, phrases, or names is a temporary but debilitating disorder, it is known as lethologica.

Retrieval failure is where the information is in long term memory, but cannot be accessed. Such information is said to be available (i.e. it is still stored) but not accessible (i.e. it cannot be retrieved).

Terms in this set (7)

• amnesia. unable to form mew memories, unanle to recal, unable to remember your early years.
• interference. old material conflicts with new material.
• repression. your forget cause there painful.
• decay/extinction. fading away.
• anterograde. unable to form new memories.
• retrograde.
• infantile.

state an everyday example of retrieval failure. needing a pen, going upstairs, and then forgetting what you were doing. an example is of retrieval failure is, needing a pen, going upstairs, and then forgetting what you were doing.

The major kinds of retrieval failure during attempts at recall are omission errors and commission errors. The relationship between these retrieval failures and the feeling of knowing is examined here in two ways.

7 common causes of forgetfulness

• Lack of sleep. Not getting enough sleep is perhaps the greatest unappreciated cause of forgetfulness.
• Medications.
• Underactive thyroid.
• Alcohol.
• Stress and anxiety.
• Depression.
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Its first reason is environment of memorization. If you are not at the same place where events and people were stored in your mind, you have a difficulty in remembering them. This failure to recall a memory is due to missing stimulus or cue that was present at encoding information.