Video: Remembering and Forgetting

Our memory is capable of 100 trillion things but we also forget.
Factors that affect remembering are: concentration and rehearsal and motivation( to remember and forget) and physical state. If one has bad condition that day one will not remember as well as other days.
In remembering new information, we need some kind of already existing memory to link on other wise it will be really hard to remember. When we receive new information, our brain organize it according to its meaning in order and a certain organization so that it will be easy to remember.

input encoded -> short term memory -> long term memory -> retrieved when needed.

Long term memory is basically limitless. It is like library but memories are not stored like books but stored like linked network. It is a passive memory storehouse

Short term memory holds all the memories in use, which means that the memories from long term memory goes through short term during retrieval. However, memories stay for a short time in short term memory. As soon as the focus of attention changes the memories are no longer in use therefore will be lost and can save. However, more information can be held in the short term memory through the process called chunking.

PEG is a technique of relating two unrelated words together to form and story. BY using this technique, we create one story which has some "meaning" therefore we can remember it better.

Sigmund Freud stated that how and what u remember is determined by who we are and what we know already because re learn things by relating new information to the old information.

Scheme is how all the memories are set into.