why do we find it easy to do something despite not having?

Question

done it for months due to a accident i havent driven for 8 months and yet i got in the car and thought nothing of it and drove without any problems
i was expecting to be a bit rough at driving but i was just the same
and i wondered why despite not doing something for months i could do just the same months later
yet some smalll minor things i find hard to do again

Answer 1

Different 'types' of memories:

1) 'episodic' - the kinds of 'episodes' (events and things) in your life
2) 'semantic' - information, details, and things like people's names
3) 'procedural' - the one you're thinking about, hences the term, "you never forget how to ride a bike". These are skills and things that become almost second nature.

Answer 2

It is all to do with the way we learn and then how we store that data

Driving is a visual thing, an audio thing, and it is also kinaestic (touching), so it is a powerful way to learn a subject. Furthermore, after you have learnt the basic abilities, you then revise them for a test.

It has been found that if we study something for only a few moments, and come back to it within 24 hours, it is placed within out short-term memory. If we then revise that thing within one week, it moves into our long-term memory. If we then do that for a whole month, it gets in to our very long-term memory.

Making you do a driving exam, was a bit like riding a bike, you tried and tried for ages, then practiced, and thus you should never forget.

Little complex things we master, but do not practice are stored just the same way, but because we don’t refresh the chemical links that remind us of how we did them so frequently, the technique diminishes within our memory. Then we forget how to do them, or we may need to fiddle with them for some time, before it floods back.

Answer 3

It's stange isn't it. I was in Europe a few days ago and found it easy to drive on the other side of the road. I learned to drive in Germany but am now living back in the UK.
My husband was amazed at how easily it came to me, but I found it quite natural.
Funnily enough though, I had some difficulty when I got on a bicycle again after many years, it took me ages to get the hang of it.

Answer 4

Because you alredy lerned it before and it;s still in ur brain. A few months ago i started playing guitar again after not playing for like a year but i could still move my fingers and put them in the rite places because i still knew how to do it. Well thats wut my science teacher taught me.

Answer 5

boo hoo!
i can't drive.