Discovery of Psychology: Memory

Today in AP Psychology class we watch Discovery of Psychology about Memory. Even though the video color came out to be black and white and it is unattractive, but I tried to listen attentively. The things I learnt from the video today are about short term, long term memory and how specific parts of brain are important in memorization. For short term memories, strategies that will increase in our ability to remember are chunking or mnemonics. But these strategies can help on some stances only because remember is also up to who you are, what we knew, level of our concentrations, and the distractions when new information is encoding. For long term memory in order for the brain to put the information into long term memory it have to enter the short term memory section first. When the memory got stored in the short term memory section it will get pass on to the long term memory section or maybe we will forget it soon because short term memory will store only small amount of information. Example of long term memory could be an unlimited tape that could record and play it when ever we wanted. Lastly about how important the brain tissues are in memorization. In the video they show that a mouse could remember the maze easily but when some part of the brain tissues got took of they can’t remember the maze and found it difficult to memorize it.