Presented by Sheena Pierre Kortschak Center for Learning amp Creativity Learning Objectives Understand the parts of the informationprocessing system Identify strategies to improve information retention ID: 931211
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Memory: What Is It and How Do We Improve Retention?
Presented by: Sheena Pierre
Kortschak
Center for Learning & Creativity
Slide2Learning Objectives
Understand the parts of the information-processing system
Identify strategies to improve information retention
Slide3What is Memory?
Slide4The Information-Processing System
(
Seli
&
Dembo
, 2020)
Slide5Parts of Long-Term Memory
Explicit/Declarative Memory
Memory of facts and events that can be consciously recalled
Broken down into:
Episodic Memory
Experience and events in a serial form
Semantic Memory
Record of facts, meaning, concepts, and knowledge about the external world
Implicit/Procedural Memory
Memory of how to perform actionsProspective MemoryMemory of contents to be remembered in the future
(
Loprinzi
et al., 2017)
Slide6Strategies to Promote Retention
Slide7Learning Strategies
Rehearsal Strategies
Mixed problem sets
Spaced/Distributed Practice
Elaboration Strategies
Mnemonics
Analogies
Organizational strategies
Classifying information into groups
Representation maps(Seli & Dembo, 2020)
Slide8Types of Mnemonics
(Brown,
Roediger
, & McDaniel, 2014), (Butler, 2018), (Dave &
Awasthi
2019)
Pegword
Key Words
Method of Loci
Letter Approach
Slide9Pegword
Utilizing rhyming phrases to symbolize numbers or order then creating a visual image to go with it
(Brown,
Roediger
, & McDaniel, 2014), (Butler, 2018), (Dave &
Awasthi
2019)
Slide10Key Words
Linking new information to key phrases already encoded into memory
(Brown,
Roediger
, & McDaniel, 2014), (Butler, 2018), (Dave &
Awasthi
2019)
Slide11Creating a mental walk and placing information to be remembered along the path
(Brown, Roediger, & McDaniel, 2014), (Butler, 2018), (Dave & Awasthi 2019)
Method of Loci
Slide12Letter Approach
Acrostics: sentences or poem whose first letters represent information to be remembered
Acronym: words whose individual letters represent information to be remembered
(Brown,
Roediger
, & McDaniel, 2014), (Butler, 2018), (Dave &
Awasthi
2019)
Slide13Other Strategies
Sleep
Exercise
Self-Referencing
Write it out
Sing about it
(Brown,
Roediger
, & McDaniel, 2014), (
Lipitz, Liu, & Gutchess, 2018), (Loprinzi
et al., 2018), (Spencer, Walker, &
Stickgold
, 2017)
Slide14References
Brown, P.,
Roediger
, H., and McDaniel, M. (2014).
Make it stick.
Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
Butler, Andrew, "General Psychology (Fall 2018)" (2018). Psychology Curricular Materials. 2.
https://scholar.valpo.edu/psych_oer/2
Dave, H., &
Awasthi, S. (2019). An Investigation of the Role of Mnemonics in Higher Education. SSRN Electronic Journal. doi: 10.2139/ssrn.3375714Lipitz
, S., Liu, X. &
Gutchess
, A. (2018). Self-Referential Memory Encoding and Mind- Wandering in Younger and Older Adults.
Open Psychology
, 1(1), pp. 58-68. Retrieved 6 Mar. 2020, from doi:10.1515/psych-2018-0005
Loprinzi
, P. D.,
Frith
, E., Edwards, M. K.,
Sng
, E., &
Ashpole
, N. (2018). The Effects of Exercise on Memory Function Among Young to Middle-Aged Adults: Systematic Review and Recommendations for Future Research.
American Journal of Health Promotion
,
32
(3), 691–704.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0890117117737409
Seli
, H &
Dembo
, M (2020).
Motivation and learning strategies for college success: A self-regulation approach (6
th
ed.).
New York:
Routledge
.
Spencer R.M.C., Walker M.P.,
Stickgold
R. (2017) Sleep and Memory Consolidation. In:
Chokroverty
S. (eds) Sleep Disorders Medicine. Springer, New York, NY