Application Paper
What is memory? Memory is the nervous system’s capacity to retain and retrieve skills and knowledge. Memory allows a person to go back through their brain a take bits and pieces of memory, or knowledge and use them in everyday life. Everyday a person’s brain is encoding all the information that is being thrown at them, to use again later. Whether that memory is used to recant a story, draw up an image you once saw years before, explain something that happened to you to a friend, or even complete a difficult exam in psychology class. Within this application paper, one will understand how to apply psychological key principles of memory, to an everyday situation of life.
Just imagine, if in a couple of weeks you had your first test in your college level psychology class. For days you had been trying to understand how your were going to memorize every last detail discussed throughout the first couple of months before you are about to take this test. Upon glancing at your notes you have decided that the …show more content…
Retrieval is the act of recalling or remembering stored information when it is needed. Again using the computer as an example, the retrieval would be when a person is able to pull up something that has been stored in the computer's hard drive and is know able to see it on the computer’s monitor. During the test your working memory is active and is retrieving all of the encoded information that has been stored in your brain from going over the flashcards.
It’s incredibly fascinating what the human brain can do, especially with memory. The ability for humans to encode, store and retrieve memory is absolutely helpful and key to helping the human in everyday situations. Whether it’s helpful for taking an exam for a psych class, remembering a recipe for your grandmother’s cookies, useful for giving directions to your house or anything of the sort, memory is key for
What is memory? Memory is the nervous system’s capacity to retain and retrieve skills and knowledge. Memory allows a person to go back through their brain a take bits and pieces of memory, or knowledge and use them in everyday life. Everyday a person’s brain is encoding all the information that is being thrown at them, to use again later. Whether that memory is used to recant a story, draw up an image you once saw years before, explain something that happened to you to a friend, or even complete a difficult exam in psychology class. Within this application paper, one will understand how to apply psychological key principles of memory, to an everyday situation of life.
Just imagine, if in a couple of weeks you had your first test in your college level psychology class. For days you had been trying to understand how your were going to memorize every last detail discussed throughout the first couple of months before you are about to take this test. Upon glancing at your notes you have decided that the …show more content…
Retrieval is the act of recalling or remembering stored information when it is needed. Again using the computer as an example, the retrieval would be when a person is able to pull up something that has been stored in the computer's hard drive and is know able to see it on the computer’s monitor. During the test your working memory is active and is retrieving all of the encoded information that has been stored in your brain from going over the flashcards.
It’s incredibly fascinating what the human brain can do, especially with memory. The ability for humans to encode, store and retrieve memory is absolutely helpful and key to helping the human in everyday situations. Whether it’s helpful for taking an exam for a psych class, remembering a recipe for your grandmother’s cookies, useful for giving directions to your house or anything of the sort, memory is key for