PSYA01H3 Lecture Notes - Long-Term Memory, Function Word
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Consolidation from sleeping firms up the transition to long term memory, but you always work with long-term memory. Sleeping after studying will consolidate the content and makes it easier to pull out the material you learned. Retrieval is the take-out of information from your memory. Coding- when you think of concepts and what they mean, how you can apply them, you use reinforcement. The more things you can relate the information with (like images, past incidents, analogies), the easier it gets to remember them. Maintenance rehearsal is like shallow studying, where you repeatedly read a text. Lot of repetition in order to place it into long-term memory. The better option for studies is elaborate rehearsal: learning, understanding, making sense of the information. When there"s a part in the text book you have trouble with, write multiple choice questions, which is a form of elaborate rehearsal.
