PS260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Implicit Memory, Rhinal Cortex, Explicit Memory
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Katona (1940) argued that the key to creating connections in the to-be-remembered material is organization. We memorize well when we find order in the material. Mnemonics are strategies used to improve memory by providing an organizational. The downside is not finding a richer understanding of the material by relating it to things framework already known no elaboration. Peg-word systems: items are hung on a system of already well known pegs . One is a bun, two is a shoe . King phillip crossed the ocean to find gold and silver. Memory is facilitated by organizing and understanding the materials, not by mere exposure. What the memorizer was doing at the time of exposure matters. You more likely to remember material if you are in the same state of mind, same location etc . The background knowledge of the memorizer matters. Acquisition, storage, and retrieval are not easily separable: New learning is grounded in previously learned (stored) knowledge.
