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This is hardly a surprise. Most "learning" in school is actually memorization. This is a skill I do not have and have not been successful at improving. For exam

This is hardly a surprise. Most "learning" in school is actually memorization. This is a skill I do not have and have not been successful at improving. For example: My short term memory is limited to two or three unrelated pieces of information. When I was working at Subway, I managed to improve this to four or five after months of daily practice. I left Subway to go to an out of state college. My short term memory went back to normal within a month. I went back to Subway for the summer, I was not able to regain that skill before school started again. I'm definitely biased but I find memorization to be pretty useless as a primary method of learning. Unfortunately, testing actual learning would require the teachers to fully understand the material they teach and have the time recognize when someone was faking knowledge on examination. It's far, far easier to test memorization.

wslh 16y ago
This is not about memorization, but working memory is like the memory cache (or registers?) of our brains. There are more theories correlating working memory to IQ, specifically look at the dual n-back brain game.
- mullr 16y ago
  Registers are the immediate computer analogy that came to mind for me as well. Does anybody know of a good introductory text about these various theories of memory? I'd love to learn mire about them, but following references is a bit time consuming.
  - wslh 16y ago
    Yes, it didn't sound perfect for me, but is a measure of how much juggling of information you can do before storing/retrieving it from another place.
  - bootload 16y ago
    "... Does anybody know of a good introductory text about these various theories of memory? ..." You might try, DeBono Edward, (Professor of Investigative Medicine at Cambridge when he wrote the book), "The Mechanism of Mind" ISBN 0224617095 January, 1969 ~ http://www.amazon.com/Mechanism-Mind-Edward-Bono/dp/0317905597 http://www.amazon.com/Mechanism-Mind-Edward-Bono/dp/03179055... I've read it, it's old but forms the basis of DeBonos ideas on thinking. The book goes into detail on the physical formation of memory ~ http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?EdwardDeBono http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?EdwardDeBono & http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_de_Bono http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_de_Bono

wslh 16y ago

This is not about memorization, but working memory is like the memory cache (or registers?) of our brains. There are more theories correlating working memory to IQ, specifically look at the dual n-back brain game.

mullr 16y ago
Registers are the immediate computer analogy that came to mind for me as well. Does anybody know of a good introductory text about these various theories of memory? I'd love to learn mire about them, but following references is a bit time consuming.
- wslh 16y ago
  Yes, it didn't sound perfect for me, but is a measure of how much juggling of information you can do before storing/retrieving it from another place.
- bootload 16y ago
  "... Does anybody know of a good introductory text about these various theories of memory? ..." You might try, DeBono Edward, (Professor of Investigative Medicine at Cambridge when he wrote the book), "The Mechanism of Mind" ISBN 0224617095 January, 1969 ~ http://www.amazon.com/Mechanism-Mind-Edward-Bono/dp/0317905597 http://www.amazon.com/Mechanism-Mind-Edward-Bono/dp/03179055... I've read it, it's old but forms the basis of DeBonos ideas on thinking. The book goes into detail on the physical formation of memory ~ http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?EdwardDeBono http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?EdwardDeBono & http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_de_Bono http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_de_Bono