Choice 4 – Information Learning and Remembering

Everyone learns through their senses although not equally. For example, the blind are sight deprived and the deaf are hearing deprived. And, for many of us, all senses are functional but we may need glasses (or other lens corrections) or hearing aids and other senses could be better developed.

With new learning, there appears to be two paths toward creating long term memories. Most of us will have memories formed during certain sleep processes. About a quarter of the population appear to be able to pre-process new information for storage of or linkage of those new ideas and facts to similar information already known at the time the information is being acquired. The main strongest visible clue that this is happening is that such individuals are frequently receiving seemingly random calls for more detail or confirmation of relationships from their brain. These calls for detail confirmation frequently result in the need to ask specific questions of an instructor if the new information is coming from a teaching session. Thus, the desire to interrupt with questions or ideas. But such random calls are not limited to verbal instruction. Random calls can come while reading as well where, all of a sudden, the reader feels an intense desire to “go back and re-read or to go off and investigate a tangent” to provide an answer to a specific random call.

When you are with a small group receiving instruction on a topic, do you generally want to:

Hold your questions to the end.

Interrupt with questions or ideas.

You must make a choice to proceed. In the next section, you will see your own style and your own type.