Remembering and Forgetting

The video that stood out to me the most was about the different parts of the brain that store memory.  There are three different chambers that store memories in your brain which are called encoder, short term memory, and long term memory.  The encoder is like a passageway that all the information has to go through before it gets to either short term or long term.  Short term memory is very interesting because it is only able to hold 5 to 9 items at a time.  While watching this video the narrator asked the viewers to remember a series of numbers which was very hard.  After realizing you can't remember all these numbers in a row he chucked all the numbers together into dates, and this made it very easy to remember all the numbers.  Long term memory is like a library in your brain but instead of books it contains networks.  Your long term memory consists of everything in your world and yourself.

Dr. Ebbinghaus conducted an experiment with himself that consisted of him trying to remember certain syllables in a series.  First Ebbinghaus would list this syllables and then he would try to retain them with distraction.  When he went back to try remember his memory faded.  This experiment didn't work because he tried to remember more than 9 things that were stored in his short term memory.  After 30 seconds he forgot the order and most of the syllables.