PS260 Lecture : Chapter 5 Part 1- The Acquisition of Memories and the Working-Memory System.docx
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Class 4, lecture 8, chapter 5 - the acquisition of memories and the working-memory system. Mnemonics are strategies used to improve memory by providing an organizational framework. The downside is not finding a richer understanding of the material by relating it to things already known: it is not good to rely on mnemonics unless it is fact based. Peg-word systems: items are hung on a system of already well known pegs : one is a bun, two is a shoe . First-letter mnemonics: roy g. biv the memorization for the rainbow (roygbiv, king phillip crossed the ocean to find gold and silver (the organization of an animal) Ambiguous passages are understood and remembered better if they are given a clarifying title: washing machine triggers better recall of the word pile in the given phrases. Memory for digits is enhanced if patterns can be discovered. Links among acquisition, storage and retrieval: acquisition, storage, and retrieval are not easily separable:
