PSY210H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Autobiographical Memory, Metacognition, Metamemory
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Lecture 5: chapter 7 cognitive processes and academic skills. The study of memory has its roots in the early days of psychological research. Ebbinghaus provided the earliest search on memory phenomena. Examples of his contribution include pioneering work on phenomena such as the forgetting curve, primacy effect and the recency effect. Memory is a fundamental psychological process in that much of our cognitive abilities rely on it. Memory strategies include any activities that promote remembering. Preschool children will look at or touch objects they have been told to remember. This is not an effective strategy, but it highlights that by a young age children are aware that engaging in some strategy is needed to aid remembering. Rehearsal: repeating information that must be remembered. Rehearsing a set of directions before you begin a drive. Organization: structuring information that has to be remembered. Remembering the provinces by organizing them from west to east. Elaboration: embellishing information to make it more memorable.
