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HOW CAN THE WAY IN WHICH WE ORGANISE OUR THINKING BY UNSING, IMAGES, CONCEPTS AND SCHEMAS HELP US IMPROVE OUR MEMORY?
Memory plays a huge part in our everyday lives. It allows us to remember skills that we’ve learned or recall information stored in our brains, even when it seems like were not actively using it. Memory creates a link to the past or future, so we can adjust our behaviour based on past experiences. Whatever we do involves our memory. However what, if due to accident or illness, would life be like without the ability to think or have no capacity to recall or store new memories? As highlighted in the case of Clive Wearing who suffered total amnesia due to infection.
My way of addressing this question is to consider how we organise and improve our memory by using mental images, concepts and schemas do they really help improve our memory?
Firstly to consider mental images, as adults, we tend to do most of our thinking in words. But experiments show that if we form iconic mental images from written or verbal information, that are bright and flamboyant, this will help fix the information in our memory. These images will then create cues when we need to recall the information later. For example Figure 16 in the course workbook looks at learning the French word ‘poubelle’ pronounced (pooh-bell) the mental image is that of lifting a lid off a bell holding your nose because of a poo smell.
Mental Images have also been proven to help in learning new languages. This is know as Key Word Technique, developed by Michael Rough and Richard Atkinson in (1975) By experimenting with two groups of participants, both asked to learn 60 Spanish words, one group using the Key Word Technique the other not. Upon testing the participants using Key Word Technique scored much higher than the group that did not use Key Word. Of course one variable considered in this testing was did any of the participants have prior knowledge of Spanish? A...
Memory plays a huge part in our everyday lives. It allows us to remember skills that we’ve learned or recall information stored in our brains, even when it seems like were not actively using it. Memory creates a link to the past or future, so we can adjust our behaviour based on past experiences. Whatever we do involves our memory. However what, if due to accident or illness, would life be like without the ability to think or have no capacity to recall or store new memories? As highlighted in the case of Clive Wearing who suffered total amnesia due to infection.
My way of addressing this question is to consider how we organise and improve our memory by using mental images, concepts and schemas do they really help improve our memory?
Firstly to consider mental images, as adults, we tend to do most of our thinking in words. But experiments show that if we form iconic mental images from written or verbal information, that are bright and flamboyant, this will help fix the information in our memory. These images will then create cues when we need to recall the information later. For example Figure 16 in the course workbook looks at learning the French word ‘poubelle’ pronounced (pooh-bell) the mental image is that of lifting a lid off a bell holding your nose because of a poo smell.
Mental Images have also been proven to help in learning new languages. This is know as Key Word Technique, developed by Michael Rough and Richard Atkinson in (1975) By experimenting with two groups of participants, both asked to learn 60 Spanish words, one group using the Key Word Technique the other not. Upon testing the participants using Key Word Technique scored much higher than the group that did not use Key Word. Of course one variable considered in this testing was did any of the participants have prior knowledge of Spanish? A...