SS10.P.7
Describe the processes and importance of memory, including how information is encoded and stored, mnemonic devices, schemas related to short-term memory, working memory, and long-term memory.
Describe the processes and importance of memory, including how information is encoded and stored, mnemonic devices, schemas related to short-term memory, working memory, and long-term memory.
UP:SS10.P.7
Vocabulary
- cognition
- memory
- information processing model
- sensory memory
- working memory
- long-term memory
- encoding
- storage
- retrieval
- maintenance rehearsal
- elaborative rehearsal
- procedural memory
- declarative memory
- episodic memory
- semantic memory
- anterograde amnesia
- retrograde amnesia
- proactive interference
- retroactive interference
- flashbulb memory
- implicit memory
- explicit memory
- priming
- recall
- recognition
- encoding specificity
- mood-congruent memory
- state-dependent memory
- tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon
- serial position effect
- spacing effect
- distributed rehearsal
- massed rehearsal
- misattribution
- expectancy bias
- mnemonics
- method of loci
- peg-word list
Knowledge
Students know:
- The importance of good memory to everyday life.
- The techniques they rely on to improve their memory of events and information.
- The brain structures typically responsible for processing and storing memories.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Synthesize evidence from multiple sources to create an endorsement of particular memory techniques that would maximize memory retention and retrieval.
- Summarize the processes and systems of memory into simpler, but still accurate, terms.
- Assess one's own capacity for memory encoding, storage and retrieval using multistep procedures and taking precise measurements, analyzing the results in light of research presented in the text.
- Notice how hierarchical organization found in texts contributes to better memory for information contained within.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- There are ways to improve memory.
- There are methods that can be used to avoid misinformation and reconstruction of memories.
- There are ways to study more efficiently by using memory enhancement techniques.
