Chapter 5

This chapter explains the long term memory. First it explains the three kind of long term memory( episodic memory, semantic memory and procedural memory) and then it goes further to explain more in depth about the aspect of long term memory which are encoding: self-reference is one of the best way to remember more information since you experienced it your self, also emotion and mood can be effective in memorizing thing , retrieval: in this part the emphasis is on explicit and implicit memory, where as by explicit memory you can recall and recognize memory and with implicit memory you can't relate anything from previous memory, and autobiographical memory: such as Flashbulb memories which occurs when the message is surprising, emotional or important. Also this part explains schemas memory which occur every time when we tend to do similar things.

2. As we know by now we can divide our memory in working memory, which is actually short term memory and long term memory, in previous chapter the emphasis was on working memory and now we moved to long term memory. The positive about this is now you can make distinguish between short term and long term memory.

3. This chapter is actually very interesting to me and I am very clear on many theories that this chapter gives about long term memory, however I am not so clear about implicit memory, I still can not connect why someone who suffers from it, still can for example dial a number.

4. At work: I think you need to use your long term memory in order to do your job correctly. For example at meetings, you need to memorize what has been told, what went wrong and what you need to improve on. So by putting your self in those point you be remembering the important subjects of the meeting.

5. As the author comes with a lot of research that has been done and also by providing demonstration exercises that I can apply, I believe she is giving valid information.

6. It is important to be able to memorize information in our long term memory, so we can be able to use it to provide students, colleges and others with useful information.

7. you can train your students by giving demonstration examples of how they can improve the quality of memorizing for the long term. Make use of their preexisting memory to remember thing that happens to them long time ago.

8. To be able to do this even better we need to come up with more realistic happenings that the students can put them self in that situation( events that most probably happens to everyone).