It depends on the individual’s memory to store, retain and recall information. For memorising something, you must first know what you want to memorise. Whatever you learn is stored in the short term memory. With repeated rehearsals, it gets converted into a long term one. Then, with retrieval, it becomes a working memory for a while.
There are two types of memories — declarative or explicit form of memory and non-declarative or implicit form of memory. Explicit memory aids in recal-ling stored information without any difficulty. For instance, personal information. This happens to every normal and gifted student and this prevails in every classroom activity.
Implicit memory refers to a memory that manifests as an improvement
on some perceptual, motor or cognitive task, with no conscious recollection of the experiences that led to the improvement!
There are two classifications under explicit memory — episodic and
semantic memory. The former relates to personal events in relation to time, places, associated with emotions and other contextual knowledge that can be explicitly stated.
For example, your memory of yesterday’s lunch or your graduation day. In both these examples, there is a connection between the individual and the incident. If students practice to learn and memorise in this pattern, it is easier while writing exams. For this to happen the subject ought to be studied more number of times than otherwise needed.
Another variety of declarative memory is the semantic memory. It deals with general knowledge, truths and facts. For example, who is an artist, what’s a sitar and who is called a drummer? etc are all semantic memories. It is helpful to store factual knowledge of studied material and acquire a basic knowledge of subject. This helps in honing your creative skills, that is, adding new thoughts to the basic ones.
— drmythily_t@apollohospitals.co
