In the social networking course, we have
discussed about four basic principles of memory. In my student’s life, we’re
always using our brain to try to memorize things and principles as many as
possible. So I want to start with my memory experience in this blog.
Pro. Chan had provided us with four basic
principles about memory below.
1、
Assumption of a limited
capacity of the mental system.
Although we want to
memorize everything, we know it is impossible. At the beginning of studying
English, I felt it was difficult to memorize all English words. As spoken in
this course, our memory capacity is limited. When the number of information
attains some point, the brain is restricted to memorize other things. So if my
restriction point is 100 words per day, I won’t be able to memorize more than
100 words. But according to my experience, this restriction will be improved if
you are enthusiastic to exercise your memory capacity. And this capacity is
actually related to individual’s talent. But I still believe that this capacity
is limited in some range because everyone forget some things and vast of human’s
memory will conform some regulation like Ebbinghaus Curve below.
2、There is a control mechanism to
government the encoding, transformation, processing, storage, retrieval and
utilization of information.
This principle actually describes that it’s
more difficult to complete a new task than a routine task. And more processing
power is required in a new environment. It’s easy to understand this principle.
When we do one thing again and again, we will try to memorize it again and
again. So it has more chances to be processed in our brain and more probability
to be memorized. In the process of repeating, we can find easier way to
complete task and know all the steps by the right order to deal with this type
task. So experience is important to encounter with the task and at this, experience is equal to former memory.
3、
There is a two-way flow of
information as we try to make sense of the world around us.
The cognition from the senses and
information we have stored in memory helps us memorize some things. It’s easy
to understand. The things relative to our life is easy to find the regulation
to have a long-term memory.
4、Human organism has been
genetically prepared to process and organize information in specific ways.
In the course, Pro. Chan made an example
about infants. A non-experienced infant always behave differently from adults.
When a strange human comes out before infants, they will have attention to his
face at first. In contrast, an adult will pay attention to other parts of the
human according to his own interest, probably such as hair, cloth, dress or
shoes.
Human memory research
is important to social networking. In order to create a popular website, the
question what can attract the users and stimulates users to memorize the
website is required to solve.
