Memory Processes

Man and up to this time - one of the most unknown to the end of the phenomenon. Scientists make grandiose discoveries, in which human psychology is revealed in detail. Memory, as one of the functional features of brain activity, still remains unsolved. A variety of hypotheses are being created, all sorts of experiments are being conducted, various guesses are being constructed, but a specific and precise definition of why human memories are so selective, how they arise and, in connection with which, they are lost until they are eliminated.

For example, the fact of long-term childhood memories, especially those that carry negative feelings, is rather interesting. Why is man so "vindictive"? Why is the good forgotten rather than the bad? It is assumed that memory processes in human psychology play a huge role, primarily because it contributes to the development of a survival mechanism.

Childhood is the period when behavior, a person's worldview, his character and habits are formed. That is why the cute youthful and infantile memories are so bright and so long. After all, it is at this time that everything happens for the first time, in the future all the events in one way or another, but they are repetitions or interpretations of an individual that once happened to be in the destiny of the individual. Why fill up with unnecessary information and so loaded brain? And memory selectively leaves only the first, the most significant sensations and events, when it received stronger impressions.

Memory processes are accepted by psychologists into three categories: directly memorizing and coding, linking fragments of an event with some specific features that distinguish them from the general format, and the reproduction of information.

The stage of memorization occurs both in the form of voluntary memorization, and intentional. And if deliberate memorization is required to learn than kiddies and engaged in children's institutions, then arbitrary memorization occurs without the participation of the person himself and his will. How sometimes I would like to forget something forever, to erase from the "files" of my brain unpleasant, bitter moments of life! But there it was: painful memories do not want to go out of my mind.

Scientists are constantly developing ways of psychological impact on memory processes in order to be able to delete at their own discretion the memories that destroy the nervous system of a person. It is rather difficult to learn how to selectively remove allegedly unnecessary information from the human brain, it is much more difficult than to be able to "load" this information into it. There are practically no methods of 100% impact on these memory processes.

So why does a mature woman, who already has grandchildren, remember the foolish case when she still forgot an intimate thing in the school locker room, and the boys then hung her out for public viewing? It turns out that this incident caused unpleasant emotions in the girlish's mind, and the memory, so that more of this does not happen, firmly captures this event in its corners.

Of course, later there were episodes when other things were already forgotten in other places, but they practically did not remember. Oh, no! Here's another case: a purse with public money was lost. The woman even thought about committing suicide. Then her neighbor rescued, giving money for a long term.

This case will also be remembered for a long time, because the impressions were extremely strong. However, in old age, it is quite possible that a later event, although much more important, will be forgotten, leaving only childhood memories as vivid and exciting.

Sit another grandmother and let's tell stories from his childhood! It seems that it was, but yesterday the old woman told it as if it were different? And then they find the psychological explanation.

The memory processes responsible for archiving and saving memories are divided into dynamic and static. Dynamic - these are the ones that a person uses quite often, because they almost always remain unchanged. But static ones, which are on long-term storage and are rarely "extracted into the light of God", are necessarily reconstructed, subject to processing.

Realizing all this, an intelligent young man will not become angry with the elderly for the fact that he does not remember yesterday's event, but will tell in detail about the case of a half-century old. Yes, and privret at the same time! This is the structure of the mechanism of human memory. It is not worth fighting with, it just needs to be accepted as fact.