PSY 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Sq3R, Overlearning, Working Memory
27 Apr 2018
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Weird things tend to stick back into your brain
SQ3R
- Survey, question, read, recite, and review
- Survey
- Find the most important items in the material
- Questions
- Go back and make the headings that were important into questions
- Read/Recite
- Begin studying from the material that you’ve marked as important in an
attempt to answer the questions you formulated earlier
- Review
Self-reference Effect
- Participants rated adjectives on four tasks designed to force varying kinds of encoding:
structural, phonemic, semantic, and self reference
- Structural
- Big letters?
- Phonemic
- Rhymes with XXXX
- Semantic
- Means the same as YYYY
- Self-reference
- Does it describe it
- Participants were then asked to recall as many words as they could
- Recall of the rated words indicated that adjectives rated under the self-reference task
were recalled the best
- A tendency to encode information differently depending on the level on which the self is
implicated in the information
- When you related information to yourself, you remember more
Storage
- Assumes that memory consists of 3 stores:
- Sensory registers (SM)
- Each sense has its own form of memory
- Iconic (visual)
- Echoic (auditory)
- High capacity, very brief
- Has impact on sensory mechanisms
- Lasts about one second
- Short-term memory (STM)
- Memory system that retains information for limited durations
- 15-30 seconds
- 5-9 items
- Items can vary in size
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Document Summary
Weird things tend to stick back into your brain. Find the most important items in the material. Go back and make the headings that were important into questions. Begin studying from the material that you"ve marked as important in an attempt to answer the questions you formulated earlier. Participants rated adjectives on four tasks designed to force varying kinds of encoding: structural, phonemic, semantic, and self reference. Participants were then asked to recall as many words as they could. Recall of the rated words indicated that adjectives rated under the self-reference task were recalled the best. A tendency to encode information differently depending on the level on which the self is implicated in the information. When you related information to yourself, you remember more. Assumes that memory consists of 3 stores: Each sense has its own form of memory. Memory system that retains information for limited durations. Items can be grouped up to store more information.
