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Memory and thinking - Coggle Diagram
Memory and thinking
Foundation
Hippocampus and frontal lobe
Long herm potentiation LTP (Neuron links strengthen)
Consolodation
Results from frequencies or long term use
New memories are dynamic
These r explicit memories in the hippocampus
Meaningful memories
Shallow: based on senses
Deep: based on meaning
Flashbulb memory
Emotionally charged episodic memories
Vivd and accurate but accuracy decreases over time
Confident
Creativity
Creativity
Ability 2 produce novel ideas
Creative Intelligence
Applying ideas to real life
Divergent thinking
Robert Sternberg's 5 components
Venturesome (willingness to fail)
Intrinsic motivations (Enjoying a challenge with no reward)
Imagination (hallucinating new perspectives/ combinations/ connections)
Creative environment (having support, feedback, encouragement, time and space to think)
Expertise (knowledge)
Time 2 b creative
Develop expertise
Deep thinking followed by rest
Be alone and alow your mind to roam
Broaden experiences
Short term
Few seconds
Small capacity 7±2 items
useful for
Phone #
Language use
Getting info to long term memory
Extending
Chunking
Serial position effect means last and first on lists get remembered most
Best focus on middle items
Rehersing works till interrupted
First impressions and iconic moments stick into long term
Long term memory
Lasts hours to decades
Huge capacity
Processing
Automatic
Implicit (without conscience recall)
Space time frequency
Motor and cognitive skills
Explicit memory
Conscience awareness
semantic and episodic
Encoding
Sensory memory
Short term + rehearsal
Long term
Memory aids
Mnemonic devices
Loci
Imagine placing listed items in a familiar place in unusual ways
Pegword
Attach listed items to consecutive words, Bun, shoe, tree, door, hive, sticks, heaven, gate, swine, hen aka 123456789 10
Songs and rhymes
Acronyms
Reduce a list to their first letters
Acrostic
Create a sentence using the acronym
Heirarchical organization
Problem solving
Algorithms
Step by step procedure
Trial and Error
Trying random possible solutions
Heuristics
Rules of thumb and stereotypes
Insights
Eureka moment
Hyperactivity in the right temporal lobe
Hunches based on memory
Overconfidence
Boosts positivity but invites risk
Lake Wobegone effect
The bad stuff won't happen to me
Belief Perseverance is the tendency to cling to beliefs regardless of evidence
Motivated reasoning is using conclusions to assess evidence
Remembering
Memory is a constructive process
Not like a videotape or DVD
Biases and expectations can influence memory
False memories
Memories of events that did not occur
Misinformation
Forgetting
Decay
Memories fade over time
Interference
Proactive
old info makes it harder to learn new info
Retroactive
new information make it harder to remember old info
Amnesia
Retrograde
Impairment of memories before onset
Anterograde
Impairment of memories after onset
Prototype
Mental representation as a reference point for an entire category or concept
Like carrots are the iconic vegetable
Though discipline is love, it is not the prototype