PSY 101 1st Edition Lecture 13 Outline of Last Lecture I. MemoryOutline of Current Lecture II. Memory continuedCurrent Lecture-level of processing: what you remember depends on what you already know-mnemonic devices: tricks to facilitate retrieval from LTM-damage or shock to cerebral cortex:-retrograde amnesia: not remembering in a backward direction; forgetting the past-damage or shock to hippocampus and related structures:-anterograde memory: not remembering in a forward direction; not learning anything new); ex Mr. Short term memory-storage: explicit memory is stored as a network of associations; physical basis remains unknown, but may be due to…-synaptic changes: long term potentiation (increase in synapse’s firing potential after brief, rapid stimulation)-ex. connection between Florida and oranges, neurons fire together-retrieval: library or warehouse metaphor-forgetting as: storage failure (put the book in the wrong place), encoding failure (never put the book in the library in the first place), retrieval failure (memory is a construction, not a reproduction), interference (trying to think of lyrics of a song while a different songis playing)-major theme: your brain is constantly adding info, but you don’t know it-study strategies-elaborative interrogation: generating an explanation for why a fact or concept is true-self-explanation: explaining how new info is related to known info, or explaining steps taken during problem solving-summarization: writing summaries of to be learned texts-highlighting or underlining: marking potential important portions while reading-keyword mnemonic: using keywords and mental imagery to associate words-imagery for text: attempting to form mental images of materials while reading-rereading: restudying text material again after an initial reading-practice testing: self-testing or taking practice tests over to be learned material-distributed practice: implementing a schedule of practice that spreads out studying over time-interleaved practice: assessing knowledge in
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