Ignoring Stuff Is Good For Your Memory

S states that there are four phases to the human memory. He suggests that using a filing cabinet approach to learning things help with memorization. “Human memory is a four - stage process: input, encoding, rehearsal, and retrieval. A problem at any stage affects memory and learning”, (S, 2013). The author goes on to discuss how each process works within his system of learning and memorizing. Inputting information into the filing cabinet is through sensory. We are using taste, smell, sight, hearing and touching at this point just to organize and get the information into the brain but not memorizing or learning anything yet. This phase is the same as the first step in “Tips from the Science of Memory-for Studying and for Life”. Arranging the information in a way that it gives the best structure for remembering it. Next, we encode the information with short term memory, only knowing that the information is there but it is not yet fully understood or committed to long term memory. After that we will rehearse and practice the information that is organized and filed neatly in the filing cabinet because now we know where to go to look for the correct information when we need it for retrieval, the final step of the process. We need to know where to look for the things we have rehearsed and practiced over and over, this information is now committed to long term memory and the only way to keep what we have learned in long term memory is to rehearse it continuously. The author gave some tips on how to maximize our memory capabilities such as studying in a well-lit area, be organized with study material and have everything you need before beginning, get 6-8 hours of sleep every night, and take planned breaks during studying

The article was able to broaden my scope and allow me see my short coming and the unnecessary pressure that I put on myself to meet near impossible expectations. I loved the quote “I like the freedom that comes with lowered expectations”. I want that kind of freedom in my life I would be able to avoid so much self reduced stress if I listened to Lopate and embraced my self doubt. By doing so I could allow myself to surprise myself and others with your work. I hope to take this outlook in my writing by allowing my pen to flow without the pressure of what others with think or say. I want to learn to be comfortable if others don’t like or understand my points or my

2b) The authors provided the reader a lot of information on the topic. Each topic was very well explored. A lot of different information on different but similar studies. The authors seemed very knowledgeable on the topic. This article lacked a few things. A clear research question and a hypothesis. The paragraphs were not clear and consist, I felt that I had to dig to get certain information. The paper was very wordy, which made me have a hard time understanding the substance.

This article’s biggest problem is that it doesn’t know what its own purpose is. This article isn’t trying to

memory: every time you read look for comparisons, and ask yourself, “Where have I seen this before?”

The internet has revolutionized the world. The internet users can easily access from any data from around the world. However, the internet was also made the users less critical thinkers since the data obtain can be easily found online instead of reading it from a print book. Two sources in particular, Nicholas Carr, “Shallows” and Michael’s Aggers, interview with Clive Thompson “Smarter than you think” have recently argued how the internet has changed our memory and ways of thinking. The internet is bad for your brain because it limits your knowledge of memorization and XXXXXXX .In the book Shallows by Carr, he states. “The arrival of the limitless and easily searchable data banks of the Internet brought a further shift, not just in the way

Most adults can usually store between 5 and 9 items in their short-term memory. This idea was put forward by Miller, and he called it the “magic number 7”. He hypothesized that short term memory could hold 7 (plus or minus 2 items) because it only had a certain number of “slots” in which certain items could be stored. However, Miller did not specify the amount of information that can be held in each slot. This leads into the idea of “chunking”. Chunking refers to the

The article is very well writing and seems to be very well researched in many areas throughout the entire article. What I am not impressed with is the way that the author executed some of the beginnings and endings of topics. There were some instances where it did not make any sense to me.

The article was well written and organized thought. However it did had a bit of deficiencies. Although the usage of personal experience and opinions are existing but she also used a lot of rhetorical strategies. This overreliance made the argument and the tone sound little bit emotional. The introduction of

For example, through the whole article, Hellmich backs up her point with many pieces of information, as she displays 5 reliable sources. Nevertheless, in the last paragraph, she had included the reply of the American Beverage Association says “This is an observational study, which cannot and does not show that cardiovascular disease is caused by drinking sugar-sweetened beverages.” This contradicts what she had stated earlier in the text. Apart from this, the article was necessarily germane to the topic. Furthermore, expanding and condensing parts could have made the article better. An example is that they should expand the words of Laurie Schmidt of the University of California-San Francisco, because of the lack of words, and how it is in a repetitive tone from Rachael Johnson. Finally, Hellmich should had been more clear by not writing about all the exceeding numbers of facts , because in the end, it would be arduous to memorize, or to keep in mind of. Although that part could use a bit of improvement, this article was straightforward and

This article was a bit hard for me to understand. I had trouble finding what I the authors meaning was. I had trouble with the counter argument and I felt I sidetracked. I am not all pleased with this essay. I asked for help from my family members. I discussed my intentions to write about and revised it with them. It actually left me feeling a

Your article does not contain any references to your suggestion that is allegedly “backed by neuroscientist findings”, and significantly re-duces the validity of the argument you are making.

Human memory is flexible and prone to suggestion. “Human memory, while remarkable in many ways, does not operate like a video camera”

Even though the authors have valid points and cite credible sources, their argument fails to be effective in several ways. For one,

Memory makes us. It is, to an extent, a collection of unique and personal experiences that we, as individuals, have amassed over our lifetime. It is what connects us to our past and what shapes our present and the future. If we are unable remember the what, when, where, and who of our everyday lives, our level of functioning would be greatly impacted. Memory is defined as or recognized as the “sum or total of what we remember.” Memory provides us the ability to learn and adjust to or from prior experiences. In addition, memory or our ability to remember plays an integral role in the building and sustaining of relationships. Additionally, memory is also a process; it is how we internalize and store our external environment and experiences. It entails the capacity to remember past experiences, and the process of recalling previous experiences, information, impressions, habits and skills to awareness. It is the storage of materials learned and/or retained from our experiences. This fact is demonstrated by the modification, adjustment and/or adaptation of structure or behavior. Furthermore, we as individuals, envision thoughts and ideas of the present through short-term memory, or in our working memory, we warehouse past experiences and learned values in long-term memory, also referred to as episodic or semantic memory. Most importantly, memory is malleable and it is intimately linked to our sense of identity and where we believe we belong in the world.