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Psychology, memory, remembering.  ---  .This section is about remembering.  ---  1/24/2006


Psychology, memory, remembering.  ---  (1) How often to remember something is akin to how often to think about something.  (2) You can remember practical goals, or things that increase vision and improve your writing. (3) You can remember and experience, a sensation, an emotion, a thought, etc.  (4) Remembering an emotion is akin to experiencing that emotion again.  (5) So there is not that big a difference between remembering, feeling, and thinking.  ---  06/01/1994


Psychology, memory, remembering.  ---  Given x person in y situation.  Total what they can remember.  How pertinent (useful or helpful) it is.  ---  12/30/1992


Psychology, memory, remembering.  ---  How much (breadth and depth) you can remember.  How fast you can remember.  In what logical arrangement you recall information.  How long you retain.  Cues needed to remember.  How accurately you remember.  ---  12/30/1992


Psychology, memory, remembering.  ---  How to remember.  Write it down and re-read it.  ---  1/25/1998


Psychology, memory, remembering.  ---  Ideal.  Given x person in y situation.  Can they remember or think/create/generate most important ideas in most important order, or will they develop shit thoughts in wrong order.  ---  12/30/1992


Psychology, memory, remembering.  ---  Ideal.  Remember best/right thing (thought or emotion) at best/right time and situation.  ---  12/30/1992


Psychology, memory, remembering.  ---  Ideal.  We need the ability not only to remember, but also to remember best, right, most important things at right time and situation.  ---  12/30/1992


Psychology, memory, remembering.  ---  Important of "reliving"  or remembering things and thus learning a better truth about it.  ---  12/30/1992


Psychology, memory, remembering.  ---  Integrate the past.  Learn from the past.  Avoid repression.  ---  12/30/1992


Psychology, memory, remembering.  ---  Knowing what it is you don't remember vs. not knowing what it is you don't remember.  ---  12/30/1992


Psychology, memory, remembering.  ---  Problems.  (1) Errors and mistakes made in remembering.  Incomplete recall, and inaccurate recall.  (2) What slows remembering?  ---  12/30/1992


Psychology, memory, remembering.  ---  Problems.  What decreases memory?  Psychological trauma, severe emotional states, pathological psychology, drugs and booze, shock reactions.  ---  12/30/1992


Psychology, memory, remembering.  ---  Problems.  What to do when all you can remember or think of is non-useful ideas and harmful ideas?  ---  12/30/1992


Psychology, memory, remembering.  ---  Recall speed.  (1) The spectrum from instant recall speed to recall after any amount of time.  (2) Recall speed when one is prepared to recall vs. recall speed when one is surprised.  ---  7/18/2002


Psychology, memory, remembering.  ---  Remembering (1) Facts: what happened.  (2) Theories on the facts: what you think about it.  ---  12/30/1992


Psychology, memory, remembering.  ---  Remembering few, trivial, false, impotent, crap ideas vs. many, important, true, powerful ideas.  ---  12/30/1992


Psychology, memory, remembering.  ---  Remembering principles vs. goals, strategies, and reasons.  ---  12/30/1992


Psychology, memory, remembering.  ---  Remembering.  (1) Doing so naturally (unconsciously).  Healthy people do, unhealthy people don't.  (2) Doing so yourself consciously.  Without writing or with writing.  (3) Doing so with a therapist.  ---  12/30/1992


Psychology, memory, remembering.  ---  Techs.  Systematically trying to remember by using chronological, alphabetical, logical or other mnemonic methods.  ---  11/20/2001


Psychology, memory, remembering.  ---  Things we keep remembering (haunting memories) and why.  Things that keep popping into our head.  Some aspect of it is still unresolved in our mind.  ---  12/30/1992


Psychology, memory, remembering.  ---  Two types of remembering problems.  (1) Specific item recall problems.  Not being able to remember a specific item at will.  For example, not being able to recall the name of a person you met.  (2) Problems with general random recall.  Not recalling much of anything in the course of a day.  For example, you go through the day without any memories entering your mind.  (3) Some people do not have an active memory.  For one reason or another, these people remember less often than other people.  Experimentally, one could measure how many general random memories the average person has on the average day, and see how certain people remember way below average.  I am talking here about memories of one's own life and the people, places and events that make up the experiences of one's life.  There are even some people who can remember anything at will, yet for one reason or another, they never have any random thoughts about their life history.  That is, they never remember.  That is not a healthy state to be in.  ---  2/8/2001


Psychology, memory, remembering.  ---  What to remember, when to remember it, how to remember it.  ---  12/30/1992




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