Remembering and Forgetting

Remembering and Forgetting
In class today, we watched a video on the topic “remembering and forgetting”. This movie provided us with detailed information about memory storage. Human have the capacity of obtaining about 100 trillion bits of information, but to remember it depends on the amount of concentration, rehearsal, and emotional effects ( such as wishes, motivations, fear, desire, etc) We could better remember the facts through relating the given information, giving it a meaning, linking it to our old memories or even organize it in a way we could recognize it. Memory storage is separated into three parts, which includes encoding short term memory and long term memory. We encode memories in to our short term memory, and then if we give it enough reinforcement we could process it in our long term memory. The limit of short term memories are only up to 7 characters, we would easily forget the old short term memory if there is new information coming in our short term memory. Long term memory is said to be limitless, it is like a storehouse where we could store as many information as we want, but the problem is calling it out ( in the movie, it is described as a library). Lastly we tend to forget memories because of our neurons dying, if neuron that carries our memory dies, that particular memory fades away.