Psychology Question?

Question

Think about the last time you attended a lecture or were in a classroom. Applying the information processing model, why did some things make it into your short-term memory and some things into your long-term memory? How can knowing this process increase your learning potential? How would you reduce the likelihood of forgetting important information?

Answer 1

OK, Im a senior right now, and in AP Psychology. What you need to look at is repitition. It has been clinically proven that if something is repeated 3 or more times, that it is more likely to be remembered. The things that have been repeated, are going to be in your short term memory, and easily recalled for a day or so. Then later they will be transfered to your long term memory. To reduce the likelihood of forgetting important information, repeat repeat repeat, so that it stays in your short term instead of getting put up on a shelf in your long term memory. You might also want to look up in your book (im assuming that its in there) the limbic system, and constructive processing to help you understand a little better, I hope that this helps!

Answer 2

I don't think its too easy to control, your subconscious usually takes in what it wants, and everything you take in is hypothetically replacing something else in your memory.

Answer 3

Depends on how you learn. Visual, kinetic, audio, or any combonation thereof.