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Improve my memory Basic Memory Facts

Improve my memory - Encoding - Encoding is an active process. It requires selective attention to the material to be encoded. One question is at what point in the process is  the distracting material screened out: early:  Broadbent (1958).  binaural v dichotic listening Binaural (2 messages but heard with both ears)...difficult  to recall Dichotic (2 messages, one heard by one ear, other by other ear)...much easier to recall one message and ignore the other, However, cocktail party phenomenon suggests a late filtering. All messages are registered but only the ones with meaning are actually put into memory. Another possibility is that where the filter occurs depends upon the task.  The more attention capacity that is available at any one time, the more one can use meaning and then the later input filter (selection) (Shiffrin, 1988).  Memories may then be affected by the amount or type of attention devoted to the task of encoding the material. There may be different levels of processing which occur and that some are deeper than others, but there is no definition for what is meant by "deeper" structural encoding (emphasis on the physical structural characteristics of the stimulus) is a shallow level. Improve my memory Tips and advice.

Improve my memory - Phonemic Encoding (emphasis on the sounds of the words) is an intermediate level Semantic encoding (emphasis on the meaning) is considered deep processing  Some other aspects of encoding are as followed: Elaboration=associating with other information Visual Imagery can be used to add richness to the material to be remembered (also adds more sensory modalities) Maintenance Do we forget because the information is gone, or do we forget because we can't access information that is still there? It is difficult to distinguish the two. However, there is evidence that we retain more than we can retrieve.

Improve my memory - Retrieval - It is well established that people make inferences during retrieval, and believe that they saw or heard things that they in fact did not. People are more likely to erroneously think they read a sentence if it is an implication of something they read. Effect of Prior Knowledge - People add other knowledge they have about the material studied. Effect of Question Wording - Subjects shown film of automobile accident. Subjects asked: Did you see a broken headlight? or Did you see the broken headlight? (There was actually none.) Results: Subjects more likely to respond yes to  the broken headlight. Implications for courtroom testimony! Canadian neurosurgeon, Wilder Penfield, was probing the temporal lobes of patients plagued by epileptic seizures when he discovered that touching certain parts of the brain caused the patient to remember vividly previous experiences.In Penfield’s words the memories he discovered as he probed the patient’s brain were, "They were electrical activation's of the sequential record of consciousness, a record that had been laid down during the patient’s earlier experience. The patient "re-lived" all that he had been aware of in that earlier period of time as in a moving-picture ‘flashback’." Because I am blessed with an eidetic memory, this is exactly what I experience when I choose to remember something perfectly. I simply allow myself to return to the original experience and it comes back completely refreshed. Penfield also concluded with his experiments that the brain stores everything its owner has ever experienced in its original form. Sigmund Freud also believed that, "in mental life nothing which has once been formed can perish." Everything you've ever experienced is there in the subconscious.