In our every day lives, there will be times when we experience short-term memory lost. This short-term memory is a 'small factory' that receives information perceived and selectively attended to in the sensory memory, or just retrieved from long-term memory.
How is short-term memory related to you? Everyone has short-term memory lost once in a while. One second a friend tells you, "Hey, this is supposed to be like this - The chicken runs towards the chicks." The next second, you looked for a piece of paper and a pen, and you went, "What was it again? Chicken, chick.." and you went back to ask again. In the end, what you remembered was, "The chicks run towards the chicken" because you clearly remembered 'chicken' and 'chicks' but not 'who runs towards who'. Had this before?
I used to have this problem; causing a lot of "huh" and "what was it again" and scratching of head which was not itchy at all. So now I came to the conclusion that there must be a way to overcome this. I tried different ways..yet none worked. But there was one way that takes some effort, and despite sacrificing time to learn..it worked!
My style: Whatever the other person says, repeat after him/her immediately. If possible, have writing materials close at hand to make quick notes. Make sure you polish your listening skills so that you don't get the wrong information! I assure you, this is one of my best way to make notes while listening in class lessons. =)
So if you happen to be like me, try it out. If this doesn't work for you, think of your own style. Let your creative mind be opened for once. All the best!
-little cup-
2 comments:
yo. been here thru YS. we tend to forget something easily when we don't hv much interest in that thing.
magma3637: yes it is true, but if we make effort to remember it for a purpose even though we dont have much interest in it, it will end up in long-term memory somehow.=)
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