In lesson eight we talked about long term memory encoding and retrieval, and the levels of processing. Me and my brother when we were younger we had to see a therapist but for different reasons, but his was more important than mine was. He had a small problem of needing to put everything in his mouth and had to put his hands over his ears when he heard something whether it was fireworks or someone yelling.

When the therapist came to the house to talk to my brother he would give my brother a new chewing plastic straw which seemed to help his addiction to eat everything on that. The therapist would check on his levels of processing by showing him a few words on a piece of paper or an image on the note card also known as a visual imagery since he was still young his self-reflecting effect was not that strong enough. We would have homework assignments with my brother to help strengthen his memories and his retrieval cues so could remember something faster with words and places.

The therapist would make little tests to see if there would be any process to what we were teaching him. While it was helping it was strengthening his hippocampus or the synapse in the brain. Which made his process more better because he was seeing the therapist he was able to experience new things and I am glad to say that my brother is no longer chewing and eating everything anymore but he has trouble still by chewing on his collar of his shirt which makes my mouth feel weird. It also made it seem like it was a synaptic consolidation with a small time frame and maybe that is just because it was the help of the therapist or maybe he was getting older and realized that he should not be eating everything .

Goldstein, E. B. (2011). Cognitive psychology: Connecting mind, research and everyday experience (4th ed.). Wadsworth, Inc.