10 Interesting Fact About The psychology and behavior of memory

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• Short -term Memory Humans can only accommodate about 7 information items in a short time before disappearing or transferred to long -term memory.
• Emotional changes can affect a person's ability to remember information, especially those related to very emotional situations.
• A person can experience anterograde amnesia after suffering a certain head injury or disease, which can result in loss of ability to form new memory.
• Long -term memory can be disturbed or changed by newly studied information or new experiences experienced.
• Sleep is important enough to consolidate long -term memory and learning skills.
• Autobographic memory can be influenced by factors such as emotions, environment, and experience.
• The tendency to remember information that supports existing beliefs or views, known as bias confirmation, can affect the accuracy of one's memory.
• Mnemononic techniques, such as associating information with images or key words, can help improve a person's ability to remember information.
• Damage to certain brain areas, such as hippocampus, can interfere with a person's ability to form or remember memory.
• Electroconvulsive therapy, although controversial, can help reduce the symptoms of retrograda amnesia in some cases.