chapter 8

The first thing i found interesting is how are brain stores memory and how we retrieve memory. To have memory our brains use three stages or steps. first encoding to gather information. Next storage, to keep that memory for later when it is needed. Finally to get when you need it, Retrieval, to get it so your brain can remember it. its pretty cool that its seems to be a lot like a computer, you work on your project, encoding. Once you are done you save you project, storage. Finlay if you ever need it you can "retrieve it from you hard drive of your computer".

The next thing if found to be interesting was the types of memory, there are four types of memory. First sensory memory, or very brief recordings of sensory information. Next is short-term memory, or memory that is used for stuff like your credit card pin, or peoples telephone numbers and such. Then there s long-term memory, or memory that is used for how to read, how to write, walk, talk, and things that we have learned as we go. I found it also interesting that long-term memory is limitless, you can learn and remember things important to your life, till the day you die. Finally there is working memory, or basic what is your good and evil person. It is a mix of short-term and long-term memory to make you who you are by your experiences.

The finally thing i found interesting is chucking. I did not know much about what this was but now that i know i plan on using it a lot. For test studying this will be so useful, to make things so simple for your brain to remember them easier. And to think our brain sometimes does this automatically. Pretty cool

I think memory is very important to humans because most of how people act is things that happen to them, so if everybody did not have there memories of things that happen to them i think we would be a lot alike. I think Clive is still a human, and he does experience things but the fact of him forgetting things makes him a just more interesting. Clive is still a human just a little confused.

I still trust my own memorise, but when i think about what i did like yesterday i am really tiring to remember as much as i can just to see if i can. Looking back at my memorize that i can honestly remember with out people telling me some part of it, seem to be all learning things, like when i broke my leg, or when i got in trouble as a kid,or the first day i counted to a hundred.

one concept that i really found interesting was the findings of Hermann Ebbinghaus. He theorized about storage decay, and it was proved by the findings of Harry Bahrick. I think it is important for people to know this because we should keep coming back to our memorize so that they do not decay be lost for ever.