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21-02-03, 07:58 PM
Hey Guyz, I just found this article in one of my books, check it out:
We often hear people say that someone has a good memory or a bad memory, but that is not really how memory works. Some people are good at remembering some things but not other things. For example, you may easily recall the tunes of songs, but quickly forget complicated facts in a science lesson. Why exactly do we forget things? Here are a number of possible explanations:
When we say we have forgotten something, what we really mean is that we never really learnt it properly.
First, if you do not pay attention to something, you will not remember it. You may have other things on your mind at the time, and so you are not concentrating. This seems to be a common problem with some teenage students!
Secondly, you may forget something because you have not been using the information. We do not retain everything in our memory and, like this, the memory has to throw away rubbish from time to time. This is why revision is so important.
Finally, you can forget something because immediately afterwards you have learnt something similar. If you have a French lesson, and then you have an Italian lesson, you might mix up the two languages, and you will probably remember the second lesson best…
So, what do you think?!
We often hear people say that someone has a good memory or a bad memory, but that is not really how memory works. Some people are good at remembering some things but not other things. For example, you may easily recall the tunes of songs, but quickly forget complicated facts in a science lesson. Why exactly do we forget things? Here are a number of possible explanations:
When we say we have forgotten something, what we really mean is that we never really learnt it properly.
First, if you do not pay attention to something, you will not remember it. You may have other things on your mind at the time, and so you are not concentrating. This seems to be a common problem with some teenage students!
Secondly, you may forget something because you have not been using the information. We do not retain everything in our memory and, like this, the memory has to throw away rubbish from time to time. This is why revision is so important.
Finally, you can forget something because immediately afterwards you have learnt something similar. If you have a French lesson, and then you have an Italian lesson, you might mix up the two languages, and you will probably remember the second lesson best…
So, what do you think?!