Learning and Memory
Memorization through conceptual understanding and formation of links between information.
What is elaborative rehearsal?
This type of memory is very limited in capacity and is based primarily on retrieval and attention.
What is short-term memory?
This is how the old way of of thinking viewed memory.
What is static/unchanging?
The ability to focus on certain things while tuning out others.
What is attention?
The pure repetition of information for the sake of memorization.
What is maintenance rehearsal?
This type of memory has a large capacity and focuses more on encoding.
What is long-term memory?
Phenomenon where participants in study claimed a stimulus appeared in a list when in reality the list comprised purely of similar items, not the stimulus presented.
What is false recognition?
The need to deliberate through tasks can be reduced by this method.
How enhanced retrieval serves to better one's memory.
What is provides more retrieval routes?
Similar to short-term memory in its focus on things you are currently thinking about, however focuses more on manipulating info rather than just holding info.
What is working memory?
This is how the new way of thinking views memory.
What is memory is dynamic, integrative, and reconstructive?
This type of resource requirement often makes dividing attention much more difficult.
What is overlapping?