PSY 255 Lecture 5: Memory-oct-16-20th
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Slower and deeper learning (schmidt and bjork, 1992) Rapid learning is usually just superficial and specific to context. Exposing learners to a varied range of examples. Easier to learn a concept with examples are highly consistent. Hybrid approach: consistent examples and once learned new examples in different contexts applicable to what you are learning. Schemas: well-integrated chunks of knowledge about the world, events, people, or actions. Allow us to form expectations: violations of expectations are often memorable and distinctive. Allows us to draw inferences/ fill gaps, enhancing understanding. Scripts: knowledge about events and concequences of events. Frames: knowledge structures referring to some aspect of the world containing fixed structural info and slots for variable info. Schemas and visual senses: violation of context and what is expected is remembered easier. Rarely submitted his results to statistical tests. Provided vague instructions to participants that could have lead to guessing which could have been the cause of errors (stephenson and gauld, 1967.
