1. THE BRAIN AND MEMORY: HOW LONG IS IT Kelly Randall PSY/201 Foundations of Psychology
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Long term memory involves three processes: encoding, storage and retrieval. We start by encoding the meaning. For example, I might encode the phrase “peaches are sweet ” with key descriptive ideas — round, fuzzy, mushy and delicious. Second we store it to a memory and then attach it to other related memories, like “my grandmothers peach cobbler” and then combine the new concept with an older memory. Third, we retrieve the concept by some of the various meaning codes and decoding the stored information to regain meaning.
A person can be driving in their car and hear a song from an artist today and it will remind them of where the original song came from. For example, “You’re All I Need to Get By" is a song recorded by Motown R&B duo Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell and released in 1968. It then became the basis for the 1995 single, “I’ll Be There For You/You’re All I Need to Get By” from Method Man and Mary J. Blige.
With anything you do in life, the capacity to can learn can be affected in a positive way as long as you are properly prepared. Being aware of your learning style plays a major role. If you are a visual learner keep a your reading material handy, try reading while exercising; if you are an auditory learner keep CD’s in your car, you can listen to your work while sitting in traffic; and if you are a kinesthetic learning, you can learn with the hands on approach, like working on a car or putting together a child’s bike.
The negative effect on learning has everything to do with our sensory input. Because our sensory store can only hold information for less a fraction of a section we will often forget what we sometimes hear and read.