After reading about how the brain relates to memories, I learned ways and strategies to help enhance one's memory. Many strategies to exercise one's memory include chunking, mnemonic devices, and elaborative rehearsal, which is defined as “a technique in which you think about the meaning of the new information and its relation to knowledge already stored in your memory” (Spielman p. 276). There are different techniques when it comes to transferring short-term memory into long-term memory; these strategies can be very beneficial as a student who tends to study a lot. Personally, I have found the most effective technique to be the self-reference effect: the process of making a personal connection to the words or material one is studying (Spielman p. 278).
An example of the nurture perspective relating to intellectual development is one I experienced as a young child. Every night before I went to sleep my parents would read me a short children's book once, then they would make me re-read the story. Throughout elementary school and middle school I tended to be on a higher reading level than my classmates; this experience probably shaped my love for reading and storytelling today.
After learning and understanding Gardner’s Multiple Intelligence Theory, I can see a little bit of myself in all of them; however, bodily kinesthetic intelligence and musical intelligence are probably the most defined within me. I tend to learn very quickly when it comes to my sport and pick up on new routes or patterns we try in a fast yet effective manner. I’ve also always been musically inclined, I can hear when a note is slightly off-pitch and can pick up on almost any rhythm or beat. Logical-mathematical intelligence is probably the one I struggle the most with. Math has never been my strong suit and I never truly understand the logic behind it. That goes for science as well, I don’t have interest in learning physics or understanding chemistry; this all relates to logical-mathematical intelligence.
References
Spielman, R.M. (2014). Psychology. Openstax.