Why Did I Come Into This Room? The Doorway Effect

1. You enter a room and forget why you went there.
2. You open a browser tab and forget what you wanted to search for.
3. Someone interrupts you, and you lose your train of thought.
4. You pick up your phone to do something but get distracted by a notification.
5. You remember that you need something but cannot remember where you put it.
6. You return to a place and suddenly remember what you wanted to do.

Complete these sentences orally:

1. The situation that happens to me most often is…
2. The last time this happened, I was…
3. What helped me remember was…