EDPE 300 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Long-Term Memory, Descriptive Knowledge, Procedural Knowledge

• School: McGill University
• Department: Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology)
• Course: EDPE 300
• Professor: Camelia Birlean

Document Summary

Prior knowledge and beliefs play a major role in the meanings that people construct students are actively involved in their own learning. Memory: a learner"s ability to save something (mentally) that they have previously learned, or the mental location where such information is saved storage: the process of putting new information into memory. Encoding: changing the format of new information as it is being sorted in memory retrieval: the process of finding information previously stored in memory. 3 components: sensory register, working (short-term) memory & long term memory sensory register working memory long term memory working memory. A nature of the sensory register sensory register: a component of memory that holds incoming information in an analyzed form for a very brief period of time. Everything you are able to see, hear, sense stored here (large capacity) Moving information to working memory: the role of attention. Attention: the focusing of mental processes on particular environmental stimuli.