The concept of memorization and the different types of rehearsals and processing associated with learning was discussed in lecture. Memory is actively learning something, and then storing that information just like you would store the old stuff toys that you played with as a child. Remembering is when you retrieve that stored information and rebuild it within your mind. With memory, you first use your sensory memory and that information will either be short term memory and long term memory. Whether it will enter the long term memory storage or the short term memory storage is dependent on how that information was processed. This lecture was a particular interest to me because I am taking a couple of courses that is really memory based and for some reason, I could not get any information to stick to me. I admit it; I do cram however, only for some classes and when I do cram, I try to cram about three days in advance.(Still no excuse I know)However, it is really frustrating for exams that I have been seriously studying for but when I take the exam, all I have in my head is a blank slate. I also went through the tip of the tongue phenomena, which is knowing that you know something but not being able to recall that information. I tried changing my study habits as well as reviewing the notes on a daily basis, so less cramming, yet still the changes didn’t show on my exam grades. Obviously I wasn’t doing anything right, but at the same time, I did not know what I was doing wrong. Not knowing what was wrong made it really difficult. How can I change something when I don’t even know what to change? Apparently it was a couple of things. It was my habit of listening to music while studying as well as the daily review. First of all, the music was blocking the effective processing of information from the start. Even though I was not listening to the words, my brain could still understand the words and basically my brain was split in two since it was trying to process the music lyrics and the actual words that I was trying to learn. In the end, I was not efficiently learning anything and adding work to my brain. The daily review was only maintenance rehearsal. Maintenance rehearsal is just repeating the information over and over again until you memorize it, however, after a certain period of time you lose that information because that memory enters the short term memory storage. It really was an eye opener. I started listening to music that had no words to it and when I reviewed the information on a daily basis, I made sure to go over the information, really try to understand it and make sure I learned it so it had some meaning to me (web of association) and then recalled that information. When I study in my room, I try to reteach the information to myself. I recently took one of my exams for a class that I REALLY needed to do well in, and got an A. If only I knew this earlier.