By contrast, what does a person's name do? His name may imply his background or culture, but generally speaking, a person's name is just a few words, a series of randomly selected syllables, or a short series of sounds, but you are told that these sounds belong to a specific face. But so what?
It turns out that if you want to transfer any information in your consciousness from short-term memory to long-term memory, you usually have to practice it repeatedly. However, you can sometimes skip this step, especially when the information is related to something very important or exciting. In this case, situational memory will be formed. If you meet someone, and TA is the most beautiful person you have ever met, and you immediately fall in love with TA, you may whisper the name of the object you admire to yourself for weeks.
Fortunately, this kind of thing doesn't usually happen when you meet someone. Therefore, if you want to remember a person's name, the only effective way is to practice it while it is still in your short-term memory. The problem is that this method is time-consuming and brain-consuming. This means that your mind may be easily covered or replaced by the next information you encounter, because you have to deal with this new information.
When you meet someone for the first time, they seldom just tell you their name. You will definitely talk about each other's hometown, work, hobbies, crimes committed, and so on. According to the rules of social etiquette, you must exchange a few pleasantries when you meet for the first time (even if you are not really interested), but after each greeting, the other person's name is more likely to be pushed out of short-term memory before it is recorded.
Most people know dozens of names and don't find it difficult to learn new names. This is because your memory will associate the name you hear with the other person. So your brain will associate people with names. With the deepening of mutual conversation, there are more and more contacts between people and names, and there is no need to practice consciously; Because you have been negotiating with each other for a long time, you will practice each other's names on a more subconscious level.