We often think that we will not be able to memorize, but once you learn about memory, you can remember better and know how to use it better.
We all grew up in an education system that depends on repetition, memorization, indoctrination and writing words fifty times in one session, and thus the basis of our learning method depends on strong remembering of each word, and the more your memory is strong and fast in memorization, the greater your chance for success is not it? They told us to repeat (Shatar knows). Their intention was to repeat at long intervals, not to repeat the information twenty times in a row, in the next lines you will know: What are the best ways to remember what you remembered, is the repetition hundreds of times in a row or repetition at separate intervals? Are there levels in the memory? Do we need adequate sleep on exam days or is it a waste of time? What about the disturbance that occurs at the moment of the exam if we do not sleep, what is the reason? Are there types of memory, I will answer all of this and more in the next lines.
What memory?
Memory is a place in the brain, where all events, memories, information are stored, and it is an essential means for learning, development and growth. Let us imagine together that there are four slots in our used memory, and things can fall into the holes unless we persistently repeat them.
There are many ways to understand memory, and I will now show the two main memory systems:
Working memory (short term)
Long-term memory
1- Working memory (short term)
It is part of the memory related to what you are processing in your mind consciously and directly, when you want to memorize a number or a piece of information on purpose and your working memory is located outside the prefrontal cortex. It is common to think that working memory retains approximately four pieces of information, so our working memory needs to repeat what you are trying to think to survive In your memory, short-term memory is ineffective in the remembering process, as it is the role of long-term memory.
2- Long-term memory
It is a large repository of storage, storing various types of information and memories. Research has shown that when we need to store information for the first time in long-term memory, you need to return to it at least a few times to increase the chance of retaining it and because it is large, the information may bury some of it, so the information is not easy to find unless you practice it and repeat the information, because it stores basic concepts and techniques That is related to anything.
How do we preserve and transfer information from short-term and long-term memory?
We use the spaced repetition technique, which involves the frequency of what you are trying to memorize, but the frequency is in intervals. So to memorize a new word, scholars found in research that if you try to memorize something by repeating the word 20 times in one night, for example, it will not memorize well, as if it was the same number of times over a period of days.
Like the one who builds a wall, if he does not leave time for the cement to dry, or in other words the time required for the overall bonds to form and strengthen, he will not get a good structure. Likewise, with the nerve connections in memory, you need time to strengthen, or as someone who tries to build muscle in one day, and this is impossible, the muscle needs Time and repetition of the exercise to adopt well, in active memory it is more like a low-quality whiteboard but a long-term like a store.
Sleep and remember
Sleep is very important to get rid of toxins, if they accumulate during our daily life, your sleep for enough time is the way in which the brain maintains its health and cleanliness.
Damages of insufficient sleep:
Lack of adequate sleep in the exams makes you unable to think clearly, as the flow of information is as if it is unclean and contains toxins that clutter your thinking. Insufficient sleep for long periods of time may be linked to all kinds of adverse conditions such as headache, depression, heart disease, diabetes and simply early death.
Sleep facts:
During sleep, your mind connects to thoughts and concepts, which is an important part of the thinking and remembering process.
At bedtime, the mind strengthens the parts that need strengthening.
During sleep, the brain exercises everything it wants to learn.
It turns out that sleep has a clear effect on your ability to grasp and solve difficult problems and what you are trying to understand and learn.
The best time to study is before bed, during sleep there is the ability to find your own neurological solution to the task of learning by placing the first seed in your work for an extended thinking pattern, using the focused thinking pattern at the beginning, and so if you want to learn something you learned before bed, the chance to dream about it is greater.
In the end, all I want from you now is to know that your ability to remember is like a muscle. You can strengthen it with training and repetition, and remember to study the method of divergent repetition and teach it to your children and excuse them for forgetting what they learned because they simply learned wrongly, and you have now learned about memory and remembering and adequate sleep is the basis for remembering and thinking It is clear, and know very well that anything new needs time to master its learning, so use patience.
