Reflection About Memory

Memory is one of the most important things we have in our life because it involves in almost every part of our mind including problem solving, decision making, and our interest in life. We depend on it because it helps us make good decisions in life. Memory is the solution in learning and thinking and we use it in our everyday life. Think about the first time you kissed someone you loved or the time you learned how to tie your shoe for the first time. Those are all forms of memory whether they are short or long term. If you do not remember anything from the past then you are having a hard time managing your memory. Without memory you would be exposed to new and extraordinary things in life. Take for example, “Aliens, Love where are they?” by John Hodgman and “Jon” by George Saunders. John Hodgman and Jon both teach readers how without memories we would have a difficult time knowing who we are, who we love, and what we want in life.

In the section “Tips from the Science of Memory-for Studying and for Life”, found in our textbook, “Experience Psychology”, the Arthur Laura A. King discusses the importance of study habits. She addresses the skills needed to turn short-term memory into long-term memory through organizing, encoding, rehearsing and retrieving the information we study and memorize. “No matter what the model of memory you use, you can sharpen your memory by thinking deeply about the “material” of life and connecting the information to other things you know.” (King. 2013).

The second premise is that if you don’t know something it’s impossible to inquire about it or to learn it. The third and

Memory is the process of encoding, storing and retrieving information in the brain. It plays an import role in our daily life. Without memory, we cannot reserve past experience, learn new things and plan for the future. Human memory is usually analogous to computer memory. While unlike computer memory, human memory is a cognitive system. It does not encode and store everything correctly as we want. As suggested by Zimbardo, Johnson and Weber (2006), human memory takes information and selectively converts it into meaningful patterns. When remembering, we reconstruct the incident as we think it was (p. 263). Sometimes our memory performance is incredibly accurate and reliable. But errors and mistakes are more commonly happen, because we do

Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them- The importance of this principle is that students must be able to deeply understand a problem by themselves this ensure that the student can analyze the problem and plan on how the will solve it.

Memory is a set of cognitive processes that allow us to remember past information (retrospective memory) and future obligations (prospective memory) so we can navigate our lives. The strength of our memory can be influenced by the connections we make through different cognitive faculties as well as by the amount of time we spend devoting to learning specific material across different points in time. New memories are created every time we remember specific event, which results in retrospective memories changing over time. Memory recall can be affected retrospectively such as seeing increased recall in the presence of contextual cues or false recall of information following leading questions. Memory also includes the process

Usually during my exam preparations when I was younger, I was always stressed about my learning, thinking my memory has reached its peak and I couldn’t study any further even though there is something to study. This also occurs when I constantly got bad marks, which caused me to be depressed and thinking that there is no way to improve my fixed memory.

Persistence is an essential trait if success is desired in any learning set up. Students must demonstrate the trait of repeating certain tasks for full comprehension and grasp of concepts. The brain is always wired to forget certain concepts that might have been explained earlier. Persistence makes sure the student never hangs up their boots when they encounter a hard task. Besides grasping forgotten concepts, persistence is also efficient when dealing with practical sessions. The ability of the student to perform one task repetitively is desirable and it increases the chances of the student to permanently and fully grasp the concept (Habley, 2013).

The first of our six principles is ruling out the hypothesis. This means that we need to make sure that all of the hypothesis that might be true need to be ruled out during investigation. We need to be able to think to ourselves and see if we considered and examined all the possible explanations for that experiment or theory. This is an important principle that we should look into when studying behavior, because we need to make sure that we are looking at every possibility for why someone might be behaving the way they are. For example, if we are looking into why all children grow at different rates, we need to make sure that we look into all the hypothesis as to what is causing the growths at different rates. We cannot just depend one hypothesis and believe it is true when there are thousands of other hypothesis that might be right as

How does memory work? Is it possible to improve your memory? In order to answer these questions, one must look at the different types of memory and how memory is stored in a person's brain.Memory is the mental process of retaining and recalling information or experiences. (1) It is the process of taking events, or facts and storing them in the brain for later use. There are three types of memory: sensory memory, short-term memory, and long-term memory.

The two concepts that I resonated with are Memory and the Psychodynamic theory. Starting with the Psychodynamic theory is an approach to psychology that studies the psychological forces underlying human behavior, feelings, and emotions, and how they may relate to early childhood experience. This theory is most closely associated with the work of Sigmund Freud, and with psychoanalysis, a type of psychotherapy that attempts to explore the patient’s unconscious thoughts and emotions so that the person is better able to understand him or herself. The second one is Memory; understanding how memory works will help you improves your memory. Which is an essential key to attaining knowledge. Memory is one of the important cognitive processes. Memory involves remembering and forgetting. I chose the two concepts because throughout the class they stood out to the most. Understanding the conscious, subconscious mind and also memory. I’m interested in understanding the human behavior.

The most interesting or relatable concept is syllogism concept in chapter 17. syllogism is a is logical perception include major premise, minor premise, and conclusion. If we express the right perceptions, we make others as well as we are. If we misunderstand, we make others misunderstand. We should keep our mind in the right way, but it is hard to tell that is the right or the wrong if another do not the same thoughtful.

The third principle that i have experienced is “ Meanings are constructed in interpersonal communication” principle. An experience that i have encountered over the years has been the use of the word “soon”. With some of my friends “soon” means they will be over in five minutes, but with others it means they will be over in three hours. Another experience

Central idea: Memory is a process of the brain which is prone to certain failures, although specific steps can be taken to guard against these failures.

If given the opportunity to reflect on remembering the past, living in the present, or looking to the future what would I choose? Is it more important to remember the actions of the past or to look towards the future to make life better? These are all important parts of life to think about, but the most important part in my life is to remember the past. Remembering the past in important to one's life because the things of the past guide us to the acts of the future.