Study Tips Flashcards
Schema
-organized set of related knowledge or ideas that influence how people think and behave
-catagories for things (think of a drawing of a house, what does it look like)
Mnemonic
-techniques used to enhance memory
Rehersal
-prolonged exposure to info so it can be remembered
Elaborate Rehersal
-thinking of an example of needed info or meaning of info to remember it later
Priming
-thinking about one concept stimulates thinking about other related concepts in memory
Method of Loci
-mentally connect info to places you know well
-mind palace from sherlock holmes
-sticky notes with info on them, walk through your home
Chunking
-remember large amounts of info
-organize individual elements into meaningful groups
Testing Effect
-enhance memory via flashcards or taking a test
Self Reference Effect
-memory is enhanced when info is applied to yourself
Serial Position effect
-you will remember the first and last bit of a list and forget the middle
Primacy Effect
-you will remember the beginning of a list
Recency Effect
-you will remember the end of a list
Context Dependent Memory
-easier to remember when you are in the place where you learned
State Dependent Memory
-easier to remember when you are in the state of which you learned
Source Memory
-events surrounding how info was learned
-who told you, when, why
Encoding Specificity
-easier to remember when you are in a similar situation to last time
