It is undeniable for the youngster nowadays that there are growing numbers of them which tend to be forgetful. It can be tolerated for those who are already in the old age, but for us, youngster, it's a no-no to be forgetful in our youth. Memory can't be separated with our life, even just reading this article, you will "use" or "activate" an enormous amount of your memory, about the words itself, your past events related to forgetting things, what you already learnt/read/taught about memory. Without memory, learning cannot occur. What is memory? How we can keep things in our brain and recall it when needed? Is there any possible method to improve our memory problems? What are the causes of our forgetfulness? What kind of forgetfulness which is still considered as normal? Read this full post to know more! What is Memory? Here we go with the most basic question for the topic! What is memory all about? Memory is the process of storing and retrieving information. There are two important facts about memory that most people don't realize:
The Memory Process
There are seven most common causes of memory problems among younger people according to Moss in Bustle:
Still, even healthy people can experience memory loss or memory distortion at any age. There are seven normal memory problems based on Healthbeat: 1. Transience: This is the tendency to forget facts or events over time. You are most likely to forget information soon after you learn it. Although transience might seem like a sign of memory weakness, brain scientists regard it as beneficial because it clears the brain of unused memories, making way for newer, more useful ones. 2. Absentmindedness: This type of forgetting occurs when you don't pay close enough attention. You forget where you just put your pen because you didn't focus on where you put it in the first place. Absentmindedness also involves forgetting to do something at a prescribed time, like taking medicine or keeping an appointment. 3. Blocking: Someone asks you a question and the answer is right on the tip of your tongue — you know that you know it, but you just can't think of it. This is perhaps the most familiar example of blocking, the temporary inability to retrieve a memory. In many cases, the barrier is a memory similar to the one you're looking for, and you retrieve the wrong one. This competing memory is so intrusive that you can't think of the memory you want. 4. Misattribution: Misattribution occurs when you remember something accurately in part, but misattribute some detail, like the time, place, or person involved. Another kind of misattribution occurs when you believe a thought you had was totally original when, in fact, it came from something you had previously read or heard but had forgotten about. This sort of misattribution explains cases of unintentional plagiarism, in which a writer passes off some information as original when he or she actually read it somewhere before. 5. Suggestibility: Suggestibility is the vulnerability of your memory to the power of suggestion — information that you learn about an occurrence after the fact becomes incorporated into your memory of the incident, even though you did not experience these details. Although little is known about exactly how suggestibility works in the brain, the suggestion fools your mind into thinking it's a real memory. 6. Bias: Even the sharpest memory isn't a flawless snapshot of reality. In your memory, your perceptions are filtered by your personal biases — experiences, beliefs, prior knowledge, and even your mood at the moment. Your biases affect your perceptions and experiences when they're being encoded in your brain. And when you retrieve a memory, your mood and other biases at that moment can influence what information you actually recall. 7. Persistence: Most people worry about forgetting things. But in some cases people are tormented by memories they wish they could forget, but can't. The persistence of memories of traumatic events, negative feelings, and ongoing fears is another form of memory problem. Some of these memories accurately reflect horrifying events, while others may be negative distortions of reality. People suffering from depression are particularly prone to having persistent, disturbing memories. So are people with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). PTSD can result from many different forms of traumatic exposure — for example, sexual abuse or wartime experiences. Flashbacks, which are persistent, intrusive memories of the traumatic event, are a core feature of PTSD. SOURCES:
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【増原 紀花】 / Norika R. Masuhara
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