PSYC 4030 Study Guide - Working Memory, Metacognition
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You have to take leadership for your own learning. Research on learning: research has told us much about the elements involved in being an effective learner, the goal is to be a self-regulated learner, the skills include: Strategies for planning and achieving goals as well as maintaining motivation (discussed in last lecture) Strategies for improving your understanding of the material and your ability to retain it: these skills are increasingly required for academic, professional and lifelong learning. Simple model of mind/brain: environment brain, other people, physical objects, working memory long-term memory, working memory- information you are currently thinking about or briefly storing. If not kept active by rehearsal, information is lost quickly from working memory. Working memory can hold only so much information: capacity is about 7+2 chunks , chunking is a way to increase the capacity of working memory. Encoding- taking information in and learning it (working long-term)
