Memory, Intelligence and states of mind

Memory: The mental faculty of retaining and recalling past 

experience.Process involved in memory:Enconding:

association with an existing memory.

Retrieval: return the information.

Storage: holding onto information.

We have 3 storage capabilities:Sensory memory:

receive through the senses.

STM: limited capacity.

LTM: unlimited.Subcategories of LTM: Declarative

Memory: memory for facts, information about our enviroment.

Semantic Memory: knowledge like the meaning of words

Episodic Memory: events and situations.

Forgetting

1. Interference

Proactive interference is when an old memory makes it more difficult or impossible to remember a new memory, and retroactive interference occurs when new information interferes with your ability to remember previously learned information.

2. Retrieval Failure

According to this theory, a memory trace is created every time a new theory is formed. Decay theory suggests that over time, these memory traces begin to fade and disappear.

3. Failure to store

Sometimes, losing information has less to do with forgetting and more to do with the fact that it never made it into long-term memory in the first place.

4. Motivated Forgetting

The two basic forms of motivated forgetting are: suppression, a conscious form of forgetting, and repression, an unconscious form of forgetting.

INTELLIGENCE Intelligence is defined as general cognitive problem-solving skills.  The German psychologist L. Wilhelm Stern was the first to coin the term intelligence quotient (IQ), a figure derived from the ratio of mental age to chronological age.

Intelligence has been defined in many different ways such as in terms of one's capacity for logic, abstract thought, understanding, self-awareness, communication, learning, emotional knowledge, memory, planning, creativity and problem solving.

It can also be more generally described as the ability to perceive or retain knowledge and information.

Relaxation In psychology is the emotional state of a living being, of

low tension, in which there is an absence of arousal that could come from sources such as anger, anxiety,

or fear.

The idea of relaxation in psychology became popular when Dr.Edmund Jacobson published his book

Progressive Relaxation.

Relaxation refers to a focusing on the mind and a relaxing of the body's muscles, including breathing exercises,

deep muscle relaxation, progressive muscle relaxation, imagery, meditation, and yoga.

Hypnosis Hypnosis is a very deep state of relaxation where

your mind is more focused and the connection between your thoughts, emotions, and behaviors are clearer.

• 5 elements of hupnosis:

Induction, deepening, therapy, wakening, final thoughts

While one stream of consciousness responds to the hypnotist’s suggestions, another dissociated stream

processes information outside of the hypnotized individuals conscious awareness

INTRODUCTIONhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eTtzH_4gP8

MEMORYhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbWZAckCam0

FORGETTINGhttp://

www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5zH4N3ohR0&list=PLb08E1Nek-5DmFI2_hGia5AFKIG5VUP3W

INTELLIGENCEhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBbmerzR2JI