The Psychology of Learning

As many of you already know, I've had several traumatic brain injuries. It's because of this, that I'm constantly working on exercises to improve my cognition. Although every brain is wired differently, we are designed never to stop learning and exploring. Memories are volatile & susceptible to corruption.

Short-term memory is a collection of temporary memory capacities. Each capacity specializes in processing a specific type of information. Short-term memory is also called the "working memory".

Working memory is a busy, temporary workplace, or a desktop that the Brain uses to process newly acquired information.

The brain processes the ability to modify neural connections to better cope with new circumstances. The molecular basis for this process is called “Plasticity”, revealing how learning and memory occur.

Our brain shapes our thoughts, hopes, dreams, and imaginations.

 The brain must decipher 100 billion nerve cells that produce, grow, and organize themselves into effective, functionally active systems that allow us to live and operate every single day.

The motivation of learning is twofold: to understand human behavior better, from how we learn; to why people have trouble getting along together.

Learning can be changed due to environmental influences, which include many factors, such as toxic substances, diet and level of physical activity; but, also encompass stressful life events.

The brain adapts to constant change and expects and takes advantage of opportunities, to transform itself into something even better than it was.

The human brain exists in an ongoing state of change. To create change or to learn; the brain builds and strategizes, as to create manipulations and sequences, which result in learning transformation.

 The right hemisphere of the brain streams information via each of our sensory systems. The left hemisphere thinks in patterned responses to incoming stimulation.

The left hemisphere is filled with ingrained programs of pattern recognition. This allows it to predict what we will think, how we will act, or what we will feel in the future, based upon our past experiences.