Meanings for Memory – Patterns
Over the past weeks we have looked at how we can add meaning to help us remember things. This included how we familiarity and rhymes can help. This week we look at finding meaning through patterns. When things have a pattern, you are much more likely to remember them.
The Science of Sticking to Your New Year’s Resolution - You can do it!
Social Cognitive Theory would suggest that our success in our New Year’s Resolutions is largely reliant on our confident we are in doing that particular resolution. If we want to exercise more, we could get a friend to exercise with us giving us social modelling, seeing others successfully going to the gym and getting fitter/stronger (vicarious experience) and getting encouragement from those around us.
Lateral Deltoids - Put Your Hands Up. Put Your Hands Up
The delts are situated around the top of your upper and arm and shoulder. They help us lift and rotate your arm as well as working to stabilise our shoulders. The lateral deltoids are primarily responsible for this. Because of this they are also the muscle primarily responsible for any everyday activity where we push something upward like lifting shopping to a high shelf.
Meanings for Memory – Rhymes
The next way we can add meaning to help us remember is through rhymes. Cast your mind back to school when you were learning so many new things? Did your teachers use rhymes to help you remember things? Things like “I before e except after c’. Rhymes give meaning to material that doesn’t inherently have meaning and in doing so, helps us to remember.
The Science of Sticking to Your New Year’s Resolution - Behaviour Change Theories
If you are one of the many people who have made a New Year’s Resolution to exercise more, congratulations. This is a great goal for your health and wellbeing. Over the next weeks, we will look through theories of behaviour change. These are theories on how we can overcome the obstacles to behaviour change and achieve a significant change and give you the best chance of sticking with your NY resolution!