PSYCH 140M Lecture Notes - Lecture 41: Computer Data Storage, Alarm Clock, Mnemonic
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Survey to find out what sort of mnemonic aids people use most often. 30 college students (avg 21 yrs old) 30 female housewives (avg 46 yrs old) Subjects asked to rate frequency of which they used memory aids. Something external to ourselves we use as a reminder. Strategies we use in encoding or retrieving information. Rhymes ( in fourteen hundred and ninety-two, columbus sailed the ocean blue ) The place method (i. e. , the method of loc) The story method (making up story to connect items in a list) Everyone reported using some type of memory aid. By far, they tended to use external memory aids. The two internal aids they did use were the only two pure. Retrieval strategies (no special encoding effort made to use them) People prefer retrieval strategies, as they avoid risking wasted effort. Use verbal types of information to cue recall. Roy g biv colors of the spectrum.
