EDU101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Shopping List, Whiteboard, Episodic Memory
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Memory & learning: learning: acquisition of knowledge, info, skills, memory: describes how/where our brain stores learned info & skills. Neurobiology of memory: long-term potentiation, practice makes permanent, use it or lose it, moment by moment whiteboard, hippocampus, very important, amygdala, gives meaning to memories & attaches affective (emotional) value to memories. Shopping list, student id : working memory, stores & manipulates info & is imptnt. For reasoning, comprehension, learning & processing info into long-term storage: v. imptnt mechanism for lang dvlpmnt & reading, prob. s with it: associated with # learning disabilities. Interest & attention: linked to previously learned material: thi(cid:374)ki(cid:374)g of (cid:373)ea(cid:374)i(cid:374)g (cid:373)ea(cid:374)i(cid:374)gful e(cid:374)dea(cid:448)or, practice should be distributed over time cramming hinders memory formation. Immediate feedback imptnt to eliminate errors & consolidate mems: overlearn, reflect & elaborate, rehearse & rehearse again, reflect & elaborate on material/skills learned, chunking & mnemonics. Strategies for classroom applications: focus attention (exp.
