Memory

So far in my class of IB Psychology we have been learning about memory and how it acts and things that may affect it and the possible results of these things affecting it. We have learned a lot about how it works, stages it undergoes, how it is different within the age we have, how it eventually declines and sometimes even crashes when things such as alzheimers where one loses memory, to the point the individual cannot recognize people it has lived with for his entire life. We also learned how there are things that affect what gets stored and what does not, such as emotion. Events can be highly emotional, perhaps scarring us for life, or making our brain repress that event. We also learned how memory affects learning and many experiments and theories such as Piaget's who made various experiments on memory, and finally making a foundation for how we learn and the different stages we undergo, and how our capacity of remembering things increases within our age, maximizing at the age of 25, and eventually declining after this year. Also we learn that not all of these things are trustworthy, since memory can be altered very easily, and that there are always exceptions to the learning stages that Piaget created.