Remember to RepeatBy: Clark Higgins

A memory storage system Unlimited capacity A few weeks to an entire life span

(Warren, 1997)

Long-term Memory

Memories of procedures, skills, and “how to”

Slow to acquire, but hard to lose Repetition develops memory Examples 1. Tying your shoe’s strings 2. Riding a bike 3. Practicing a musical

instrument

(Farndon, 2003)

Non-Declarative Memory

Two types: Episodic and Semantic Storage of facts Examples 1. First car 2. Birthday

(Farndon, 2003)

Declarative Memory

Episodic Striking

experiences Sensations Examples

1. Breaking your arm2. First real date

(Farndon, 2003)

Semantic Dates Examples

1.Christmas Day2. Your mother’s

birthday

Episodic and Semantic Memories

Short-term memory to long-term memory through the hippocampus

Shape of a seahorse Makes the long-term memories, but doesn’t

store them If both hippocampi are destroyed, then you can

never learn anything new

(Dongier, 2002)

Hippocampus

New facts or memories are remembered by running them through the hippocampus many times over.

Repeating Mnemonic devices

(Dongier, 2002)

Remember to Repeat

These memories are not lost, instead are misplaced

Memories that have been restored did not form new forebrain neurons.

These neurons just grew new connections to the others.

This rewiring will bring back lost memories.

(Shay, 2007)

Lost Memories

Memories are divided up and stored in many regions inside the brain.

Memories make up the connections between neurons

This is why a smell might trigger an old memory

Storage of Memories

The process in which we find information in our long-term memory, then transfer it back to the working memory

We retrieve these long-term memories triggered by the new information, then store both of them together.

Two types: recall and recognize

(Wagner, 2005)

Retrieval of Memories

Retrieval methods

Recall Recognition

We get information from our memory without seeing the memory.

Example A short answer

question.

(Wagner,2005)

Revolves around recognizing the information after seeing it before.

ExampleA quiz where you

choose one of the choices to be the correct one.

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Farndon, J. (2003). 1000 Things you should know about the human body. (p. 61). Essex, United Kingdom: Miles Kelly Publishing.

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