#Club75 || Forgetting vs Remembering | Sequel 2

Hello Beautiful people, I want to believe everyone had a great day. I happen to be have had a good one myself🙂.

In our sequel 1^Here on the Forgetting vs Remembering series, we saw what it took for someone to retrieve or bring back stored information from the long-term memory. Today, let's actually look at how that happens.

These are also known as retrieval processes and many ways have been identified through which people remember materials in the long-term store. These forms comprise of recognition, recall, and relearning.

Recognition

This is the ability to identify something you've seen before. Note that before seeing the object, you weren't thinking about it or hadn't brought it to mind. So, seeing it actually made you bring it back from the stored memory. This operation involves matching of a stimulus cue with properties of the long-term memory content. A good example could be a multiple choice examination, during which your choice of answer is always dependent on you recognizing it to be what you've seen, heard or learnt before.

Recall

This is the retrieval process where a person remembers what he/she has learnt, in the absence of the material. Recall, as opposed to recognition requires a more general cue than the exact information to be located in the long-term memory. Let's take for example, if you have to recall what happened last night at the party, you would probably start bringing to mind several factors like the location, the people you were with, how they were dressed, the activities, what was served etc. These and more will permit you recall or have a perfect image of yesterdays happenings.

Relearning

Relearning refers to the amount of time a learner takes to restudy a material. When the time is shorter than the original time taken to learn the material the first time, it is assumed that something has already been memorized. This is also known as the method of savings. For example, This is seen during studying for a final examination, where a student takes a shorter time to understand what had been taught as opposed to when it was originally being taught. This is because the mind is already familiar with the information priorly saved in the long-term memory (revision).

Dear Steemians, I think it's important to understand the "tricks" of the brain so as to master our survival abilities or our adaptability in life situations. With this knowledge for example, a student will not miss classes(learn) and expect to read at the nick of time and make good grades. That will be an extremely difficulty experience, simply because the brain is learning the material for the first time and there's nothing in store to bridge the gap. Equally, the understanding of the above forms of retrieval permits us not to expect of someone a particular response, a result or a reaction when the person concerned wasn't exposed to any of the mentioned forms.

Unfortunately🤦‍♂️, while others have exceptionally good memories, others have very poor memories. Those with poor memories are those who are unable to remember information stored in the long-term memory. This is what is generally know as forgetting. In our next sequel we will explore more on these mysteries. While hoping to meet you soon still thirsty for knowledge, remain blessed.