2. Introduction
Welcome and brief overview of the
presentation.
Importance of understanding
memory psychology in everyday life
and cognitive processes.
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3. What I know about Memory?
Memory is one of the extraordinary phenomena of the natural world.
Our sensory experiences, perceptions and actions change us continuously and
determine what we are later abte to perceive, remember, understand, and
become.
Human memory is unique in its characteristic ability to store visual
recordings.
Along with associated emotions and feelings.
A subsequent recall of various memories includes reliving the associated
emotions.
It is this quality that makes our memories pleasant and unpleasant.
Higher mentalfunctions such as speech, thinking, perceptions, moods,
psychomotor
skills and consciousness of surroundings are based on memory.
Without memory there can be no mind
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4. Stages in Memory
Encoding:
➢ sensory information is received and
coded or transformed into neural
impulses that can be processed
further or stored for later use.
➢ just as a computer changes keyboard
entries into binary digits that can be
stored on a disk, sensory information is
transduced, so that it can be used
and stored by the brain.
➢ a partfrom transduction a great deat
of encoding process appears to be
devoted to rehearsing or repeating
the input.
Storage:
➢ Like a computer program, the
encoded information must be
stored in the memory system.
➢ Although some bits of
information are stored briefly
or used only once, and then
discarded, others, like
➢ certain telephone numbers,
are used frequently, and are
therefore stored on a more
permanent basis
Retrieval:
➢ Once a file has been named
and stored on a computer, we
can call it up by its name and
use it again.
➢ Human memory works in
much the same way.
➢ When we recall or bring a
memory into consciousness,
we have retrieved it. This recall
process is known
memory retrieval.
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5. Method to Improve Memory
Attention:
A setting that enhances your focus while studying and ensures minimal
distraction will turn your attention to the memory job at hand.
Spaced Practice:
Space practice generally is superior to massed practice. Three 20 min
study sessions can produce more learning than one hour of continuous
study
Sleep:
Sleeping after study is helpful and reduces the interference similarly breaks
and free times in schedule are as important as the study periods staying
awake the whole night before your exam is not the smart thing to do.
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6. More on Method to improve Memory
Review:
Reviewing shortly before an examination is helpful though one should
avoid the tendency to memorise new information at that point this review
should take about an hour not the whole night prior to exam.
Attach emotion feeling:
Link up with an event we hardly ever forget what is emotionaly significient
in our lives senior citizens continue to recall events of emotional
significance even when their short term memory is grossly impaired
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