Even though that story was really stupid, I'm surprised that I remembered as much as I did! I remembered 10 of the 20. I've done an exercise like this before, and I only remembered like 5. This exercise really showed the importance of chunking. I didn't use that idea, instead, I just tried to remember as many as I could, and it didn't work out. Thankfully, I remembered most of the foods, because I chunked that information, and a few of the animals because I chunked that as well. This exercise was hard, but I definitely see how the information processing theory works now!
Thursday, September 29
Blog Post 2, Information Processing
Once upon a time, I was sitting in bed, drinking milk and eating cake, and I decided to turn on the TV. The TV was on a dumb show about bears and elephants (probably animal planet), so I switched the channel. A reality show was on, called "The Present". On this TV show, a young girl tries to "fall in love" with someone - kind of like the Bachelor shows. As I'm watching, I'm noticing this girl has a weird obsession with her hair - she keeps brushing it with a comb! The show is really stupid - a guy even dresses up like cupid and says she's his "target", and tries to hit her with an arrow! - but I can't stop from watching. Eventually, she chooses a guy, and he jumps out of a present. The show was SO lame. Suddenly, I look over, and notice that my fish died in it's tank! This night is the worst - first I watch a stupid show, and then my fish dies!
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Your story was somewhat similar to mine. Mine was a little more random though which probably helped you with your memorization of the items. I agree chunking is definitely important. I had the same problem with my memorization. Because mine was so random I wasn't able to chunk the items into categories and that would have made the process a lot easier to achieve because it gives the brain a way to organize the items instead of having it try to recall a bunch of random things.
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