I am currently studying for and working to become more active in the pharmacy line of work. As a potential future student Pharmacy Technician I am studying medical terminology and also memorizing the vast majority of the primary drug companies and their products to help me become a certified Pharmacy Technician. For example, I have to know the difference between a Schedule IV drug and a Schedule II drug and also provide an example of each; in this case Lorazepam versus OxyContin. I also have to know what these drugs are capable of and generally what dosage they are prescribed. I currently have about a month to continue my studies up until certification, giving me as a student plenty of time to encode the information into my long term …show more content…
I will use a component of the Modal Model to help explain how I will go about storing the information in my long term memory. The Modal Model describes a process known as rehearsal, and just how it sounds, it’s all about replaying information through various means to help it traverse from the Working Memory into the Long Term Memory. More specifically I will do this by repeating the medical terminology over and over so that I can keep it in my Working Memory for longer. Thus, the longer it is in my personal Working Memory, the more likely it is to make it into Long Term …show more content…
Memories start within the working memory or short-term memory as the RAM, or random access memory, of our minds. If the information here goes unrehearsed, it retains pieces of information for roughly fifteen or twenty seconds and is limited to seven pieces, plus or minus two, at any one time. Long-term memory, however, is composed of episode based elements and semantic elements, usually coming from reheated short term memory information. I define semantic memory as my overall knowledge of the world, including general information like definitions, procedures, words, and more information like that. Episodic memory, however, includes my personal experiences and also my life’s events like my childhood and what happened in lecture yesterday. These one-time memories are known to be much more fragile than the over learned memories like semantic or implicit memories. Thus, it’s these memories that are the most susceptible to decay or unreliable