Week of Deep Views Ch 6

What did I learn? I learned that we even have an opportunity to redeem ourselves in college. The last test that I took in this class, I did horribly. I found that so odd as a walked out and for the first time today, the 27th of October, I was able to look at what I did wrong and I learned so much more than by just accepting the loss of a grade and moving on. Talking about moving on, lets talk about what I really learned in class apart from why I messed up on the test. We learned about the 3 steps of Memory. I really enjoyed learning about this because I am trying to remember things each day and I find that I am not doing a great job at it. So we looked at the steps... 1- Sensory Registar which is everything that we are "sensing". The duration is short and it has unlimited capacity to do good. 2- Working memory, which pulls knowledge for the sensory memory by paying attention to what was learned. It also has a short duration but it is longer than the sensory memory. To keep it here you need to repeat or rehearse what it is that you are learning. 3- From there it goes to the long term memory which has an unlimited duration and capacity. Then within the long term realm of memory it can then be placed into one of the 3 groups. 1- Declarative/semantic (fact and knowledge) 2- Procedural (how to knowledge) and 3- Episodic (memories, ae events/pics)
Why did it grab my attention? I enjoyed learning about the mind because it fascinates me as to how much it can do. I enjoyed learning about the steps and how it can go from one to the other. Then to see what the long term memory can do was way neat.
Now What? I now want to start using this knowledge to help me retain what I learn. By placing more into the long term setting or the working memory so that I might remember things more readily. I then thought that it would be fun to teach my students each year how their brain works and how they can utilize to their fullest capacity. It could be fun and it might even be useful. You never know.