Memory
Memory is not independent of everything else that brains do. This includes general thinking abilities, motivation, attitudes, lifestyle, and the mental challenges that people go for. General health, exercise, sleep, response to stress, and diet are just as important. Research continually expands our understanding of these indirect influences on learning and memory.
Another under-appreciated area about memory is the role of learning. As two sides of the same coin, learning and memory are interdependent. How we approach a learning task has enormous impact on how much of it we remember. These factors include study strategy, attentiveness, distractibility and cognitive interference, and organization and categorization of learning material.
Likewise, how much you remember of learned material affects your capacity for understanding and memorizing new material. Experts in a given field have become experts because they have memorized learning templates and schema that help them to be better learners than non-experts. They may have learned to increase working memory capacity, which in turn improves the ability to think and solve problems. That is, the more they know, the more they can know.
Memory ability is multi-dimensional. The complete learner employs many means of improving knowledge.
in Memory Medic
Psychology Today
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