Forgetting vs Remembering | Sequel 1

Hello steaming Steemians, what a cold🥶 day it is this way with so much down pour. Please kindly share with us what you do to remain productive when it gets this rainy and chilly. For me, it's the perfect atmosphere that sets my creative mode right and active.

Notwithstanding, a lot of people miss on the essential and tend to forget what they usually did that made them stay productive or relevant. Most at times remembering or recalling what is to be done or used to be done isn't even an easy task to deal with🤦‍♂️.

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Remembering, which is actually the process of bringing back memory trace from the memory store or the ability to retrieve information from the long-term memory, does not only depend on having information that has been coded and stored, but also on having an appropriate situation (context) or cues (memory cues) to bring back the information into consciousness. The process of remembering is therefore facilitated by retrieval cues which are stimuli that are associated with the information stored in the memory which can help bring the information for necessary action.

In this process, most at times landmark events, created atmospheres etc., can be used to search forward and backward in order to get details of event or information from the long-term memory. This is the reason why if you go or travel to a place you've been before, you immediately start having memories and images💭 of happenings you've lived in the said location. Similarly, perceiving the fragrance of a body cologne from a passersby which you had been accustomed to several months or years back will immediately bring to memory the image of the person who wore it back then. These will certainly be accompanied by nostalgic or undesirous feelings depending on what the circumstances might have looked like back then.

That said, it's therefore always relevant if we want to have an optimum level of retrieval of information or remembering from long-term memory, to place oneself in a situation, environnement or atmosphere that possesses the right stimuli or cues that will favor the bringing back of those stored images and feeling.

In the next sequel of this series, we shall look deeper into the forms and processes associated to remembering or retrieval. While hoping you remain in anticipation of the next post, thank you all for reading through.

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Have a blessed day
@tignoga