A STUDY ABOUT THE MEMORY: HOW TO GRASP WHATEVER YOU LEARN VERY FAST

Do you wonder how information gets stored in your brain? How do you keep all that you learn in school? How do you also retrieve them? Every student’s desire is to quickly grasp what they learn and be able to remember it in future.

There are three stages through which information passes, and then permanently stored in our brains.

Here is an image on the memory system.

1. Sensory Memory: Your sensory memory keeps information temporarily and for a short duration. It stores information of vision for less than second and auditory information for a few seconds. This explains why at times when you’re reading a text and you don’t pay attention to it, you seem not to even remember a single thing. The same thing when you don’t pay attention to your teacher in class, you seem not to remember what he/she says. Information transfer from the sensory memory to short-term memory needs attention. Without paying attention, information may be lost in the sensory memory.

2. Short-term Memory: If you pay attention to whatever you see or hear which is in your sensory memory, it is possible to remember whatever you read. The short term memory holds information for about 5-15 seconds and you mostly use this information especially after reading something and then you try explaining to friends. This type of memory is also called the working memory because it is always in use. All these forms of explanations you give can be a kind of rehearsal that you do to keep information permanently.

3. Long term memory: The long term memory is the final store for information. It stores information permanently. So when you learn a text or any material and you pay attention to it and rehearse it moves from the sensory memory to the short term memory and finally to the long term memory where it is being stored permanently. With this, whatever you learn can be remembered easily.

And so the secret behind learning and the ability to retain knowledge is to pay attention to what you read, and then practice recalling it by explaining to others or by a self-test.

Now try following the steps mentioned above and enjoy your learning life. I hope you have learned something new.