Perhaps the world does revolve around you
by Samantha Zaninelli | Thursday, Feb 02, 2023
You may be happy to hear that the world revolves around you a lot more than you might think. I mean, seriously, did you know we are more likely to remember new class content i/thrive/students/thrive-thursdays/samrevolvesaroundyou/f we relate it back to ourselves? Do not /thrive/students/thrive-thursdays/samrevolvesaroundyou/fret, this does not make you a sel/thrive/students/thrive-thursdays/samrevolvesaroundyou/fish or egotistical person, but rather is part o/thrive/students/thrive-thursdays/samrevolvesaroundyou/f what is known as the sel/thrive/students/thrive-thursdays/samrevolvesaroundyou/f-re/thrive/students/thrive-thursdays/samrevolvesaroundyou/ference e/thrive/students/thrive-thursdays/samrevolvesaroundyou/f/thrive/students/thrive-thursdays/samrevolvesaroundyou/fect.
This e/thrive/students/thrive-thursdays/samrevolvesaroundyou/f/thrive/students/thrive-thursdays/samrevolvesaroundyou/fect explains why when you meet an individual that has the same birthday as you, you are very likely to remember it (unless you tend to /thrive/students/thrive-thursdays/samrevolvesaroundyou/forget your own birthday鈥). Or why I still remember my Club Penguin login in/thrive/students/thrive-thursdays/samrevolvesaroundyou/formation 10 years a/thrive/students/thrive-thursdays/samrevolvesaroundyou/fter creating it, as it involved a combination o/thrive/students/thrive-thursdays/samrevolvesaroundyou/f my personal in/thrive/students/thrive-thursdays/samrevolvesaroundyou/formation. When it comes to in/thrive/students/thrive-thursdays/samrevolvesaroundyou/formation we want to remember /thrive/students/thrive-thursdays/samrevolvesaroundyou/for the long run, such as passwords, pins, and security questions, we tend to utilize in/thrive/students/thrive-thursdays/samrevolvesaroundyou/formation that is easily accessible to our brain, which typically involves personal data such as birthdays, age, names, and di/thrive/students/thrive-thursdays/samrevolvesaroundyou/f/thrive/students/thrive-thursdays/samrevolvesaroundyou/ferent pre/thrive/students/thrive-thursdays/samrevolvesaroundyou/ferences. This mainly includes our own personal in/thrive/students/thrive-thursdays/samrevolvesaroundyou/formation, however, it is also help/thrive/students/thrive-thursdays/samrevolvesaroundyou/ful with the in/thrive/students/thrive-thursdays/samrevolvesaroundyou/formation o/thrive/students/thrive-thursdays/samrevolvesaroundyou/f the people close to us, such as /thrive/students/thrive-thursdays/samrevolvesaroundyou/family and /thrive/students/thrive-thursdays/samrevolvesaroundyou/friends.
The sel/thrive/students/thrive-thursdays/samrevolvesaroundyou/f-re/thrive/students/thrive-thursdays/samrevolvesaroundyou/ference e/thrive/students/thrive-thursdays/samrevolvesaroundyou/f/thrive/students/thrive-thursdays/samrevolvesaroundyou/fect is the idea that we tend to pay more attention to in/thrive/students/thrive-thursdays/samrevolvesaroundyou/formation that is personally relevant. This can be explained by the /thrive/students/thrive-thursdays/samrevolvesaroundyou/fact that we hold our memories and long-term knowledge in di/thrive/students/thrive-thursdays/samrevolvesaroundyou/f/thrive/students/thrive-thursdays/samrevolvesaroundyou/ferent 鈥渂rain /thrive/students/thrive-thursdays/samrevolvesaroundyou/folders鈥 known as schemas, which are readily available at the very /thrive/students/thrive-thursdays/samrevolvesaroundyou/front o/thrive/students/thrive-thursdays/samrevolvesaroundyou/f retrieval. Our sel/thrive/students/thrive-thursdays/samrevolvesaroundyou/f-concept (how you de/thrive/students/thrive-thursdays/samrevolvesaroundyou/fine yoursel/thrive/students/thrive-thursdays/samrevolvesaroundyou/f), mannerisms, personality traits, social identities, and sel/thrive/students/thrive-thursdays/samrevolvesaroundyou/f-knowledge can all be placed in this broad sel/thrive/students/thrive-thursdays/samrevolvesaroundyou/f-schema 鈥/thrive/students/thrive-thursdays/samrevolvesaroundyou/folder鈥 which is at the /thrive/students/thrive-thursdays/samrevolvesaroundyou/fore/thrive/students/thrive-thursdays/samrevolvesaroundyou/front o/thrive/students/thrive-thursdays/samrevolvesaroundyou/f our minds. A sel/thrive/students/thrive-thursdays/samrevolvesaroundyou/f-schema consists o/thrive/students/thrive-thursdays/samrevolvesaroundyou/f the belie/thrive/students/thrive-thursdays/samrevolvesaroundyou/fs someone has about themsel/thrive/students/thrive-thursdays/samrevolvesaroundyou/f, which serves as a guide to process related in/thrive/students/thrive-thursdays/samrevolvesaroundyou/formation. Considering we spend quite some time elaborating and expanding our 鈥渟el/thrive/students/thrive-thursdays/samrevolvesaroundyou/f鈥 /thrive/students/thrive-thursdays/samrevolvesaroundyou/folder, it only makes sense that this in/thrive/students/thrive-thursdays/samrevolvesaroundyou/formation is readily available.
Placing new in/thrive/students/thrive-thursdays/samrevolvesaroundyou/formation in our sel/thrive/students/thrive-thursdays/samrevolvesaroundyou/f-schema by relating it to ourselves actually results in an engaging and deeper memory processing level, making it more likely to encode in long-term memory and be remembered in the /thrive/students/thrive-thursdays/samrevolvesaroundyou/future. While learning new in/thrive/students/thrive-thursdays/samrevolvesaroundyou/formation, the sel/thrive/students/thrive-thursdays/samrevolvesaroundyou/f-re/thrive/students/thrive-thursdays/samrevolvesaroundyou/ference e/thrive/students/thrive-thursdays/samrevolvesaroundyou/f/thrive/students/thrive-thursdays/samrevolvesaroundyou/fect involves a more active processing where perhaps episodic memory is involved. I/thrive/students/thrive-thursdays/samrevolvesaroundyou/f new in/thrive/students/thrive-thursdays/samrevolvesaroundyou/formation provided to you prompts you to remember a speci/thrive/students/thrive-thursdays/samrevolvesaroundyou/fic event that occurred to you, then you will be able to associate what you have learned with a previous memory and overall pay more attention. This results in deeper processing, and there/thrive/students/thrive-thursdays/samrevolvesaroundyou/fore this new in/thrive/students/thrive-thursdays/samrevolvesaroundyou/formation will be easier to actively recall and retrieve when needed.
The most important part is to think about how this new in/thrive/students/thrive-thursdays/samrevolvesaroundyou/formation you are learning applies to your own li/thrive/students/thrive-thursdays/samrevolvesaroundyou/fe. For instance, i/thrive/students/thrive-thursdays/samrevolvesaroundyou/f you are sitting in a psychology course learning about mood-congruent memories, try to think about a speci/thrive/students/thrive-thursdays/samrevolvesaroundyou/fic example where this has occurred to you. Perhaps in a discussion between you and a /thrive/students/thrive-thursdays/samrevolvesaroundyou/friend where you both recalled happy memories which sparked even more happy memories. 听听
Next time you are sitting in a course with di/thrive/students/thrive-thursdays/samrevolvesaroundyou/f/thrive/students/thrive-thursdays/samrevolvesaroundyou/ficult in/thrive/students/thrive-thursdays/samrevolvesaroundyou/formation to digest, remember the sel/thrive/students/thrive-thursdays/samrevolvesaroundyou/f-re/thrive/students/thrive-thursdays/samrevolvesaroundyou/ference e/thrive/students/thrive-thursdays/samrevolvesaroundyou/f/thrive/students/thrive-thursdays/samrevolvesaroundyou/fect and how you can utilize it to your advantage in order to succeed.