Methods Of Remembering
Cognitive process that breaks down large groups of information into smaller more manageable units
What is chunking?
Cognitive bias for newly encountered information
What is recency effect?
Practice in one large session
What is massed practice?
What is distributed practice?
Cognitive bias for older information
What is Primary effect?
The process the mind uses to turn thoughts into memories
What is encoding?
Memory aids that help recall information
What is Mnemonic devices?
Cognitive bias to forget information in the middle, but remember the most recent and oldest information.
What is serial position effect?
Mentally associating information with a specific location
What is method of loci
Mental groupings of similar concepts used to organize our knowledge.
What is Categories?
The effect of learning information in parts is more effective at teaching the brain
What is spacing effect?
Turning short term memories into long term memories
What is memory consolidation?
The way in which memories are stored and interconnected in the brain
What is Hierarchies?