BY: MELISSA
Have you ever thought about memory and how we have the ability to remember certain things more than others? This week in my psychology 101 courses we learned all about memory and learning. Memory is learning that has persisted over time. Some information we can remember for a lifetime while other information we can only remember for a short, few seconds.
Have you ever thought about memory and how we have the ability to remember certain things more than others? This week in my psychology 101 courses we learned all about memory and learning. Memory is learning that has persisted over time. Some information we can remember for a lifetime while other information we can only remember for a short, few seconds.
To remember any event, we must get the information into our brain, also called encoding, then retain and store that information so we can later get it back into consciousness, also called retrieval. To study memory, psychologists and researchers use Atkinson’s and Shiffrin’s classical model (picture showed below).
There are really two ways to encoding, automatic and effortful processing. First, we use automatic processing for the sequence of day’s events and occurs unconsciously. For example, the number of times we run into a friend. But on the other hand, we also use effortful processing to encode information. This type of encoding is the process that involves repetition of material. For example, in class we learned about Ebbinghaus, a pioneer of the study of memory, who studied the impact of rehearsal by teaching himself nonsense syllables.
I hope you learned something new today with this blog post! Feel free to comment any questions or suggestions on how to make this blog better!
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