Encoding and Retrieving

Long-Term Memory

Grocery List to be memorized

1. Milk2. Bread3. Eggs4. Cheese5. Toothpaste6. Saffron Spice7. Iodine8. Noodles9. Razors10.Arugula

11.Sour Cream12.Ice Cream13.Lettuce14.Tomatoes15.Chicken16.Pepper17.Green Tea18.Roach Traps19.Matches20.Orange Juice

What are the basic ways that memory is encoded/retrieved?

1. Emotional Connection

1. Emotional Connection

Requires no strategies, but lasting memories are usually created though an emotional connection with event. INTRINSIC INTEREST

Example: National tragedies – Pearl Harbor, Challenger explosion, tsunami, 9/11 - where were you?

OR Personal experiences – what if grocery list represented all the food left in the world? OR what if all of them made you sick at one time? OR what if all were your favorite foods!

2. Repetition/Rote Strategies

2. Rehearsal

Repeat, Repeat, Repeat, Repeat, Repeat, Repeat, Repeat, Repeat, Repeat, Repeat, Repeat, Repeat, Repeat, Repeat, Repeat, Repeat, Repeat, Repeat, Repeat, Repeat, Repeat, Repeat, Repeat, Repeat, Repeat, Repeat, Repeat, Repeat, Repeat, Repeat, Repeat, Repeat, Repeat, Repeat, Repeat, Repeat, Repeat, Repeat, Repeat, Repeat, Repeat, Repeat, Repeat, Repeat, Repeat, Repeat, Repeat, Repeat, Repeat, Repeat

3. Elaboration StrategiesAssociation

(Mnemonics)

Loci Method

Look around the place that you will be doing your learning and associate objects in the place to the material to be learned

Peg-type Method

Using a memorized pre-existing list to associate with one to be learned

Acronym

Using letters to associate with the material to be learned.

M, B, E, C, T, S, I N, A, R(brim insect) or….My boy eats candy tacos in a room

Concept Mapping

Place objects with higher concepts (Chunking) and/or connect by mappingDairy

MilkMilkEggsCheese

BreadMatches

Veggies

ArugulaLettuceTomatoes

4. SLEEP

4. Sleep

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