Your Brain Long-Term Memory, How to Enhance Your Memory, and How the Connections Grow
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Your Brain
Long-Term Memory,How to Enhance Your Memory,
andHow the Connections Grow
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Long-Term Memory is an Abstract Concept (So Let’s Use An Analogy)
Long-Term Memory is part of your brain’s filing system. It has at least 2 filing cabinets.
Each filing cabinet has different drawers with different kinds of memories.
Explicit Memory
Implicit Memory
Semantic Episodic
ProceduralClassically-Conditioned
Priming
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The Drawers Have Specific NamesExplicit or
Declarative ◦Semantic ◦Episodic
Implicit or Non-declarative◦Procedural◦Classically-Conditioned◦Priming
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So Let’s Look at Your Drawers
Explicit or Declarative (Conscious Recall)◦ Semantic (Facts and
General Info)◦ Episodic (Personal
Experiences and Events)
Implicit or Non-declarative (No Conscious Recall)◦ Procedural (Motor
Skills and Habits)◦ Classically-
Conditioned (Response to Conditioned Stimuli)
◦ Priming (Earlier Exposure)
Explicit Memory
Implicit Memory
Semantic Episodic
Procedural
Classically-Conditioned
Priming
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The Concept of Long-Term Memory
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Your brain stores different parts of your Long-Term Memory in different physical sections.When your brain needs a memory, it activates that physical section & extracts the memory.Like a computer gets data from its memory storage.
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And what if the data isn’t in the correct drawer when your brain
searches for the missing piece?
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Want to enhance your memory?
Try the process of SQ4R1.Survey2.Question3.Read4.Recite5.Review6.Write
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To Remember Better, Use the Process of SQ4R
Survey
Question
Read
Recite
Review
Write
It works for anything you want to remember
Try it today.
What is something you want to remember better, longer, more solidly?
For school? For fun?For work?
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What memory do you want to build?For a stronger, more solid, enhanced
memory, SQ4RSurvey
QuestionReadReciteReviewWrite
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Learning modifies the brain’s neural networks in 2 ways
1. Dendrites grow more spines, more synapses, more receptor sites, more sensitivity
What does growing more spines (branches) mean?
“I have 3 branches”
“I have 4 branches. I am learning more.”
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Learning modifies the brain’s neural networks in 2 ways1. Dendrites grow more
synapses, more receptor sites, more sensitivityWhat does that mean?
(go see Wikipedia)
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Synapses and Receptor Sites
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Learning modifies the brain’s neural networks in 2
ways1. Dendrites grow more spines, more synapses,
more receptor sites, more sensitivity
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The Second Way2. Neurons increase their ability to
release neurotransmitters
Neurotransmitters are the chemicals that jump the gap between neurons.Want to know more? (go to Wikipedia)
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