Module 11 Blog 2

Blog2

I was on my bed, my sister was on the couch. We were watching tv, it was bozo buckets (clown) and they won a present. She gave me a hair cut with scissors and a comb but it was bad so I wore a hat. We got hungry and ate cake, donuts and drank milk with our pet fish who is very CRABby. There was a deer we got with darts and a bear rug. The poor mouse was stuck in the mousetrap but it was ok because we still had our bear and elephant.

This was surprisingly easy. I only forgot about the cow and somehow managed to think of a lion. At first it was a bit overwhelming because the pictures were unfamiliar, but after I looked at each one, I started chunking them in groups: food, animals, furniture, etc. I put together a story that is more just some random sentences, but it still it helped me remember the pictures.

This helps memory because of chunking, if you group things together, you have less to remember and it becomes a lot easier. This encodes much better. Also, putting the pictures into a story makes them more than just random pictures. Each becomes associated with the next, creating a flow that turns into one thing. In the book they used the example of the alphabet. At first it is each individual letter, and then once it starts to be encoded and remembered, it turns more fluid and into something easy to recall and remember. Story telling goes into long term memory rather than sensory. You put thought and so much effort into creating and rehearsing the story that it encodes with you, rather than you barely consciously even noticing it and it disappears.