Meaning

Today we did another experiment on memory. This time we have a competition to remember the word. The competition went like this. First Mr. Peter will tell us 20 words which we have to divide into 2 different categories which is A which is to count the syllable and B which is to state whether the mood is a pleasant mood or an unpleasant mood. The results of the experiment were very interesting because there was a very large range of score from 6 to 19. It is also interesting to see that most of the words that are remembered tend to fall into category B which is to remember the word by its mood. This study linked to what we have learned in that lesson about memory. We stated that external events are input as sensory memory which can then be encoded into our short-term or long-term memory as part of an automatic processing. The memory kept in our short-term memory can be recalled to be use. However there is another stage of memory which is the long-term memory. In order to encode something into our long-term memory, different method is required. This method is called effortful processing which involved rehearsing over and over to encode the short-term memory into our long term-memory.