The video I chose is Ted Talk on how to improve memory and
break Miller’s Law of 7. The law is well
known and we have mentioned it in class.
The average person can hold seven pieces of information in their
short-term memory at a time. The speaker
suggests that this law is not true. He
talks about how he is a memory athlete and competes in memory challenges in
Australia. One example he gave was a man
who memorized the entire Sydney phone book in 23 hours. The speaker give three principles to improved
memory.
The first principle is Mindfulness. James would call this attention. The speaker says that most memory failures
are actually failures of attention. Our
course discussions and reading on attention would support this fact. When we fail to pay attention, we are likely
to miss things. The next principle is
Visual and Imaginative Encoding. This
principle would also be supported by James and is assertion that connections
are the keys to memory. The speaker
suggests that making more connections will increase the ability to remember
more things. The third principle is
organization. This is supported by
Piaget’s ideas of assimilation and accommodation. Thoughts must be organized to be retrieved
more easily.
I, Lauren, am watching this video and will comment on it.
ReplyDeleteIn watching this video, it first reminded me of sensory registers. One of the Power Points stated that attention is a key part in how you register input. In this Ted Talk, attention was a key factor in effective remembering. Also, the next step for effective remembering was visual and imaginative encoding. In this process I did make a connection with James in discussing that associations are key in trying to remember new information. James believed that you always associate something new with and old association even if they have nothing in common. In completing the short-term memory tasks, I found that I remembered items best when there was a visual image. I really enjoyed this video and appreciate the fact that someone believes it is possible for humans to obtain more information at a time. What stood out to me the most was awareness, attention, and connections. James would agree that all of these things are vital in processing information.
ReplyDeleteYes. I think attention plays a large role in memory. We see students with ADHD typically have lower cognitive scores on subtests involving memory (digit spans, word order, etc.). Their inattention works against their ability to maximize their memory. I think it is crucial that we expose children to many things and words so they have a large bank of experiences with which to make connections. Your video mentioned that. Just this morning, my son insisted on wearing the shirt we had gotten him to wear on his birthday which was over 2 weeks ago. After having it on for a while, he pointed to it and asked for a present. He remembered that when he wore that shirt, he got presents. Even at age 2, he makes connections all the time and I feel that it is my responsibility to help him see connections in everything because that is how we learn.
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