21. People have to use information to make it stick

Summary of Chapter 21:

- When moving things to working memory into long-term memory by repeating and connecting to something they already know.

- 10 billion neurons in the brain that store information.

- Neurons in the brain fire every time we repeat a word, phrase, song, or phone number we are trying to memorize.

- Memories are stored as patterns of connections between neurons.

- When two neurons are activated, the connections will be strengthened. That’s why repeating information enough times, the neurons form a firing trace.

- People use schemata to store information in long-term memory and to retrieve it.

- An example of this would be expert chess players who can pile a lot of information into one scheme with ease, for example, starting moves, the strategies for each player, and what the next move will probably be.