Want to remember more? While it doesn't technically change the number of items you can hold on to, this strategy will let you fit more information into each "slot" your temporary memory system has.
What is Chunking?
If we're talking about a specific section of the outside layer of the brain, then it's one of these general pieces
What is a Lobe?
When someone is entirely aware that they are learning, they are experiencing this broad learning type.
What is Explicit Learning?
Watch out for how people phrase things! Even if they are not trying to, they may cause this trait of human beings to alter your memory.
What is Suggestibility?
This cell is the basic information-processing building-block of the whole nervous system. We've even named a whole science after them!
What is a Neuron?
This kind of learning only involves presenting two things together, not someone taking an action.
What is Classical Conditioning?
Want to study more effectively? Research shows that this step, though it describes "fetching" and using a memory, can actually helps strengthen it. So those practice quizzes and tests can be helpful after all!
What is Retrieval?
This portion of the brain is apparently critical for Classical Condition. Poor rabbits without one just kept getting their eyes puffed at.
What is the Cerebellum?
This is a specific way to cause a creature to learn a behavior by rewarding similar actions at first, and building towards the end goal slowly.
What is Shaping?
What is the Forgetting Curve?
The outside of the brain is called this; which also means "bark" in Latin. (Tree, not dog.)
What is the Cortex?
This is the term for an item that had innate, biological meaning to something even before any pairing took place.
What is the Unconditioned Stimulus?
Have something you want to remember for a long time? Make connections! Each different connection serves as one of these; essentially a hint that your brain can use to "find" what you are looking for.
What is a Retrieval Cue?
This is where we see a lot of activity during Visual Encoding. Makes sense, seeing as it's the primary vision center of the brain.
What is the Occipital Lobe?
This occurs when a previously reliable cue is shown repeatedly to no longer predict that a reward or punishment is coming.
What is Extinction?