MEMORY
Perhaps the attribute which contributes the most to the general course of the life of a being is his memory. It is the talent which is probably solely responsible for shaping the social, emotional, professional and academic face of one's life. A person's social and emotional behavior is mainly determined by how much he remembers the behavior of others towards him. Every social act leaves an impression of the memory of the person which subsequently decides his way of dealing with others. Similarly the person's own emotional behavior is a function of emotional behaviors of others towards him. Academically and professionally, memory is equally important or perhaps even more important. In academics, the child basically learns everything by memorising. While the Humanities are to be directly memorised, the students can only excel in the subjects of Science and Mathematics only when they apply their memories to apply the methods of problem solving they have previously come across. Of course innovations are indispensable, but quite often these innovations are slight modifications of earlier methods and for that the earlier methods have to be clearly remembered. In the same way Professional excellence can be ensured by applying memory to remember the immaculate ways of problem solving used by our forerunners in the business world. In a nutshell, understanding is memorising.
Equally interesting is the theory which discusses the ways, someone's memory works in. A person's memory can be broadly divided into three types:-
1. Recall Memory - This is the type of memory which a child or for that matter an adult uses to deliberately remember something. The person sees something worth remembering , notes it somewhere in his mind and consciously recalls it when needed. That something can be anything. It can be the answer to a question a child remembers before exams and recalls it during the exam. It can be a phone number which an adult is told in a place where he cannot store it in his cell and which he tries to retain in his mind and recalls sometime later. Not only this is the most broadly used part of memory, this is probably the significant one.
2. Recognition Memory - This type of memory begins to manifest itself right from early childhood of a person. A small child begins to remember his father or mother through recognition. He recognises things like water and milk which have been previously fed to him and begins to remember it. Similarly an adult remembers many things by recognising them from the past particularly even if he hadn’t deliberately tried to remember it. The things remembered this way can be people, movies, songs, antonyms and synonyms to words or any other thing which you don’t try to remember but you do when you see them just because you recognise them from the past. This kind of memory can be genuinely phenomenal in inspiring innovations and contributing to professional success of people.
3. Reverberative Memory - This memory is probably the most random kind of memory and has no particular explanation to its existence. This part of memory accounts for sudden and random memories of people, incidents, movies, songs and many other things in situations which are not particularly related to them. There are times when you are completely engrossed in your work and then suddenly the memory of one of your childhood friend comes to your mind. This friend of yours might have not been very close to you and you might have not heard of him in the last ten years and you have genuinely no clue as to why you remembered him. Probably the only explanation to this kind of memory is reverberation of memories in your mind. The incidents or people or anything for that matter go inside your mind, go on to reach the inner walls of your mind and strike them and come back and reverberate. Moreover there is no explicable pattern for this reverberation. Though this kind of memory can come up with miraculous ideas, this is not a very reliable part of the memory.
Though the behavior of a human's memory can never be completely explained, the above theory is an attempt to explain it as accurately as it can be done.
Equally interesting is the theory which discusses the ways, someone's memory works in. A person's memory can be broadly divided into three types:-
1. Recall Memory - This is the type of memory which a child or for that matter an adult uses to deliberately remember something. The person sees something worth remembering , notes it somewhere in his mind and consciously recalls it when needed. That something can be anything. It can be the answer to a question a child remembers before exams and recalls it during the exam. It can be a phone number which an adult is told in a place where he cannot store it in his cell and which he tries to retain in his mind and recalls sometime later. Not only this is the most broadly used part of memory, this is probably the significant one.
2. Recognition Memory - This type of memory begins to manifest itself right from early childhood of a person. A small child begins to remember his father or mother through recognition. He recognises things like water and milk which have been previously fed to him and begins to remember it. Similarly an adult remembers many things by recognising them from the past particularly even if he hadn’t deliberately tried to remember it. The things remembered this way can be people, movies, songs, antonyms and synonyms to words or any other thing which you don’t try to remember but you do when you see them just because you recognise them from the past. This kind of memory can be genuinely phenomenal in inspiring innovations and contributing to professional success of people.
3. Reverberative Memory - This memory is probably the most random kind of memory and has no particular explanation to its existence. This part of memory accounts for sudden and random memories of people, incidents, movies, songs and many other things in situations which are not particularly related to them. There are times when you are completely engrossed in your work and then suddenly the memory of one of your childhood friend comes to your mind. This friend of yours might have not been very close to you and you might have not heard of him in the last ten years and you have genuinely no clue as to why you remembered him. Probably the only explanation to this kind of memory is reverberation of memories in your mind. The incidents or people or anything for that matter go inside your mind, go on to reach the inner walls of your mind and strike them and come back and reverberate. Moreover there is no explicable pattern for this reverberation. Though this kind of memory can come up with miraculous ideas, this is not a very reliable part of the memory.
Though the behavior of a human's memory can never be completely explained, the above theory is an attempt to explain it as accurately as it can be done.
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