07 12 2012 10 04 00 Lecture 8 Accessibility high low When you need to remember something you are fishing for the information that you need You are going to take the name that is closest to the fish tank Easier to access Determinants of cognitive accessibility Frequency of access Emotional significance Recency of access priming o If you are a zookeeper going to be easier to access o If you are shown a bald eagle before you are going to name the bald eagle have more recent access to it Schema A collection of linked concepts o Ex birds are animals animals have feathers o Ex birds can fly you can have poop falling from above o Ex birds can be pigeons pigeons live in the city When you prime a specific concept you are priming anything in that concept o Ex you are linking eagle bald bird claw to the top of accessibility as well Stereotypes are types of Schema EX women nurturying moody kind that it is connected Elaborative rehearsal o Don t necessarily need to believe it but you just have to know information Harrison president songs 9 accessibility of X longterm memory A technique for improving memory by enriching the coding of Ex need to remember the 9th president of the United states henry o A more complex schema of harry harison becoming 9th o Henry had 9 hairy songs created a mental image of hairy the more links make to X the more ways there are to increase the connect information that you are learning to the already in your o EX connect the wedding date that was on sept 11 to the events of sept 11 Does it really work College students were randomly assigned to do rout rehearsal and elaborative rehearsal Really does work Tips The more vivis and unique the better Connect things to sensory information Don t overdo it save it for the hard stuff don t do it to everything Do better on her exams So I heard that you are in History 157 and you are having trouble studying the concept of Elaborate rehearsal would
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