SS10.P.7

Social Studies (2010) Grade(s): 09-12 - Psychology

Students know:

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.

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.