| Gestalt
Laws |
- Proximity
- Good continuation
- Similarity
- common
fate
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| Mind Mapping |
- Getting
the information down on paper the way the mind handles it.
- A-ha shift
when making connections between once random idea
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| Informational
processing view |
- the process
by which information is either remembered or forgotten
- three
parts of memory system-sensory register, short term and long term
memory
- people
must be paying attention to the information if they are to retain
it (that is it must get from the sensory register, be processed
initially to be put into the short term memory
- it
must be perceived, which takes time
- once
information is stored in the short term memory, it must be, through
repetition, rehearsal and encoding put into long term memory, else
it be forgotten.
- Information
stored in the long term memory may be retrieved back to short term
memory
- Long
term memory is divided into three parts: episodic, semantic
and procedural memory.
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| Levels of
processing |
- The theory
holds that if people are only likely to remember information that has
been subjected to the greatest level of mental processing
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| Dual Code
Theory |
- Related
to the levels of processing theory which hypothesizes that information
in long term memory is stored in two forms: visual and verbal, corresponding
to episodic and semantic memory.
- information
that is presented both visually and verbally will be recalled easier
than information presented in just one way.
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| Transfer Appropriate
Processing |
- A further
modification of the level of processing theory, this states that the
depth of processing alone does not determine the ease of recall, but
rather how the information was learned and then tested.
- strength
and durability of memory depends also on the similarity between the
conditions under which the material was learned and those under which
it was called for.
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| Memory Strategies |
- Paired-association
- Serial
learning
- mnemonics
- loci
- pegword
- rhyming
- Free-recall
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| Practice |
- Distributed
practice is better for retention, even over shorter periods of time
- Part learning
helps reduce retroactive inhibition
- Automacy
frees the conscious mind and short term memory for more complex tasks
- Overlearning
increases retention
- Enactment--we
learn by doing
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