Storage and Retrieval

An interesting topic that Chapter 3 covered was the concept of listening and retaining the information. This chapter proves that you may be listening however if you don’t retain the information, listening was a waste of time. I find this topic mostly because I have such a hard time retaining information and I have since I was a kid. Test taking for me is never a good situation, because my memory is shot in a sense. This chapter went over some key points that won’t only help me understand why I can’t remember some things but makes me analyze a lot of things in more of a sense to memorize them. It states that in some scenarios where you are under high amounts of stress your body will naturally forget things due to high amounts of stress. Not only that but we also forget things that may have conflicts with our assumptions or desires. On top of all that, we also forget things that could be painful, physically and emotionally. Lastly, one way you can accidently misinterpret things or forget is when multiple pieces of information is being directed to you. Your brain may jumble the two things being said together and what you think is what they just said, could be totally wrong. This subject also greatly interests me because it goes a little into the function of the brain.

 Some ways to better your memory is to:
1. Mentally rehearse what was said
2. Take quick yet detailed notes, only containing brief necessities
3. Create acronyms for some things to remember