Science Of Memory

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 first two chapters of “What the Best College Students Do” cover several topics. Throughout the chapters, the lives and experiences of different college students are explored. A reoccurring theme in the book is the concept of learning styles. Essentially, the three learning styles are memorization, comprehension, and strategy. According to the author, comprehension is the most effective style of learning. While everyone will possess one of these three learning styles, it is not impossible for someone to adjust to another style. Additionally, the author elaborates on academic ideas such as independence, grades, and outside influences.

This relates to how Professor Dewey says it is easy to feel like you are understanding with your study resources close to you. Flashcards are fairly effective for me. The repetition makes ideas stick. I usually color code them to so I have something tangible to associate with them as well. My study habits are not absolutely terrible but they could definitely use some work.

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.

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Salvador Dali’s 1931 painting The Persistence of Memory is a hallmark of the surrealist movement. Dali famously described his paintings as “hand-painted dream photographs” and The Persistence of Memory is a prime example of that description. The Persistence of Memory depicts striking and confusing images of melting pocket watches and a mysterious fetus-like structure all sprawled over the dreamscape representation of Dali’s home of Port Lligat, Spain. Dali uses strange images, color, and shadows in The Persistence of Memory to convey an abstract view on dreams, time, and reality.

The initial process of recording information in a form usable to memory, a process called encoding, is the first stage in remembering something. Memory specialists speak of storage, the maintenance of material saved in memory. If the material is not stored adequately, it cannot be recalled. Memory also depends on one last process retrieval: material in memory storage has to be located and brought into awareness to be useful. In sum, psychologists consider memory to be the process by which

This dream exhibits qualities that make it reasonable to classify it as Freud’s wish fulfillment theory. Freud’s theory recognizes dreams as fulfilling wishes that might otherwise be unacceptable (these wishes are usually sexual). These dreams contain manifest content (obvious to the eye) and latent content (obtain an underlying meaning). The manifest content is the boy seeing a girl’s answers to her test which he is not supposed to see and the latent content may be the boy quickly seeing the girl naked, something he was not supposed to see but wants to see, such as her “answers”. The memory consolidation theory includes the information processing theory which acts to convert short term memories into long term memories by sorting out and consolidating

To start with is to understand human memory is a diverse set of cognitive capacities by which we reconstruct past experiences and, retain information usually for present purposes. Memory is one of the most important ways by which our histories define our current actions and experiences. Most notably, the human ability to conjure up long-gone but specific episodes of our lives is both familiar and puzzling, and is a key aspect of personal identity. Memory seems to be a source of knowledge. We remember experiences and events which happened and are not currently happening, so memory differs from perception, so memory is unlike pure imagination. Yet, in practice, there can be close interactions between remembering, perceiving, and imagining.

Spain, 1931, Salvador Dali creates an abstract oil on canvas portrayal or the knowledge that is gained through ones dreams, visions, and intuition. The Persistence of Memory, 1931 portrays an abstract view of time and visions that Dali envisioned. Perhaps, his most famous work was The Persistence of Memory, which he painted in his younger years in the 30s. The Persistence of Memory, 1931, elevates the influence of the subconscious mind through fantasy like images, color, composition, and thought provoking images.

Though the use of note-taking and rereading is most notably known as the best study technique amongst college students, we see that other ways of retaining information can be more beneficial than that of writing notes and reading them over before exams. The article at hand tests the idea of a 3R method which is the use of reading, recalling, and reviewing information instead of traditional study methods. The usage of the 3R strategy in studying is seen as more effective than traditional note-taking, due to the 3R strategy being able to increase the chances of recalling information

A range of different and useful topics have been discussed since the start of Pathways to lifelong learning, some of which I found to be of particular help. The college expectations which we learned towards the beginning of the course was especially helpful to learning how to become a critical thinker, something that was not very touched upon throughout my time in high school. I now use Bloom’s Taxonomy when beginning to prepare for an important paper or presentation. In addition to the first chapter, I had also found great help in the second chapter on the skills needed to succeed in school. In the past, I used rehearsal as my main strategy to memorize for any upcoming tests or exams, however that often resulted in either retrieval failure or ineffective encoding. I now use chunking and elaboration as my main strategies to studying as I find it most effective when studying and retrieving information, especially when I am needing to memorize and learn a big amount of material.

What are the three types of memory? The three types of memory are the following; short term memory, long term memory, and sensory memory. Before I go into the three types of memory, let’s talk about one very important vocab word. The vocab word is the word memory. Memory refers to the how much information we can store and manipulate from our memory to our processing center, or working memory. Now that we understand the term memory, let’s talk about each of the three types of memory in detail.

Memory and its functions have always fascinated psychologists. As the first psychological laboratory was being opened in 1879, the first experiments on memory were being conducted by Hermann Ebbinghaus. Ebbinghaus developed the theory of the forgetting curve, a very early theory on the factors that influence memory and information retention (Schneider, 2015). Even since Ebbinghaus’ work at the dawn of psychology, countless studies have been conducted with the goal of understanding memory and the numerous factors that influence it. From these studies, two factors in particular seem to have garnered a significant amount of attention: motivation (in the form of rewards) and learning methods. Each has been researched separately

Having memories impacts our lives greatly without them society would not be as it is today. According to Grison, Heatherton, and Gazzaniga(2015), memory is the capacity to acquire and retain information and skills. Not all experiences will be equally remembered, some events will leave no memory, others will be remembered but later forgotten, and other times a memory can be remembered for a lifetime. I will be looking into how student can use memory concepts that will improve student’s grades if they follow it correctly. And also talk about my personal study habits and how I can improve them so I can get a more positive result in my classes.