Our memory is the storehouse for everything we know. For this student café assignment, students are to target a specific aspect of your memory that you would like to improve and then apply one or more memory principles from the text to make the improvement and the results of applying these techniques. For example, you may want to strive to enhance your performance on exams, to recall important birthdates and anniversaries, to remember people's names following introductions, or to reduce absentminded actions, such as misplacing keys or a wallet.

Questions:

In your assignment describe:

1. The aspect of memory targeted for improvement (and why)
2. The memory principles or strategies used (including the rationale behind them), and
3. Any results (positive or negative) from applying these techniques.

Answers:

Question No. 1: The aspect of memory targeted for improvement (and why)?

• According to Matlin (2005), memory is the process of maintaining information over time. it has three aspects: 1. Encoding; 2. Storage and ; 3. Retrieval. Among them, I would like to improve my ENCODING aspect. When information comes into our memory system (from sensory input), it needs to be changed into a form that the system can cope with, so that it can be stored. However in my case, I find it hard to process so I can put them into my long term memory. I struggle most if I am not interested in the subject. Maybe its about interest and connection. Sometimes, I can encode topics and still able to store and retrieve them as long as I am interested with it. Among those memories that I can retrieve, I have to continuously review them as well because sometimes, due to some physiological and psychological factors, our brain may haywire and link those memories into other memories that is why they can be fragmented, according to brain science.

Question No. 2 and 3: The memory principles or strategies used (including the rationale behind them), and any results (positive or negative) from applying these techniques.

• I highly consider the principle of INTEREST that is in order to remember something thoroughly, the person must be interested in it to build reasons on why that person should give attention and retain the information. I also apply the principle of SELECTIVITY by determining what is the most important and selecting those parts to study and learn. The mind can absorb only a certain amount of new material at a time. You can't learn everything about everything. However, in cases where everything seems to be important, i apply the principle of CONSOLIDATION. Human brain must have time for new information to soak in, so little by little I practice my brain to store memory until I have the full grasp of the information.
• All principles are applicable especially during the retrieval process. I can easily provide information that is related from one another. Moreover, these principles also help me to provide examples that are available in my subconscious. I can easily recall them and if in case, there is no available stores information, I am able to form new insights based on the available ones.

Step-by-step explanation

Memory is the ability of an organism to record information about things or events with the facility of recalling them later at will.

The Memory Process:

1. Encoding (or registration): the process of receiving, processing, and combining information. Encoding allows information from the outside world to reach our senses in the forms of chemical and physical stimuli. In this first stage we must change the information so that we may put the memory into the encoding process.
2. Storage: the creation of a permanent record of the encoded information. Storage is the second memory stage or process in which we maintain information over periods of time.
3. Retrieval (or recall, or recognition): the calling back of stored information in response to some cue for use in a process or activity. The third process is the retrieval of information that we have stored. We must locate it and return it to our consciousness. Some retrieval attempts may be effortless due to the type of informat

Sources:

• McLeod, S. A. (2013, August 05). Stages of memory - encoding storage and retrieval. Simply Psychology. https://www.simplypsychology.org/memory.html
• Lumen (n.d.). Introduction to Memory. Retrieved from https://courses.lumenlearning.com/boundless-psychology/chapter/introduction-to-memory/#:~:text=The%20three%20main%20stages%20of,%2C%20and%20long%2Dterm%20memory.