The document discusses memory strategies and limiting factors. Effective memory strategies include forming associations between items, rehearsal, using categories and schemas, creating narratives, recasting tasks, and metacognition. Limiting factors are exceeding short-term memory capacity, time limits not allowing full encoding, task anxiety, difficulties with motor skills, primacy and recency effects, and unclear stimuli. The strategies and limitations provide implications for how memory and learning can be optimized.
3. Strategies that worked
Forming paired associations between items - color,
number, word labels, physical movement
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4. Strategies that worked
Forming paired associations between items - color,
number, word labels, physical movement
Rehearsal - repetition, subvocalizing
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5. Strategies that worked
Forming paired associations between items - color,
number, word labels, physical movement
Rehearsal - repetition, subvocalizing
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6. Strategies that worked
Forming paired associations between items - color,
number, word labels, physical movement
Rehearsal - repetition, subvocalizing
“horses”
“five horses”
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9. Strategies that worked
Categories (Schema)
Connecting with prior knowledge
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10. Strategies that worked
Categories (Schema)
Connecting with prior knowledge
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11. Strategies that worked
Categories (Schema)
Connecting with prior knowledge
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12. Strategies that worked
Categories (Schema)
Connecting with prior knowledge
“vegetation”
“rainforest”
“living things”
“green”
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13. Strategies that worked
Creating a narrative
“After taking a
canoe, we
walked on the
beach”
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14. Strategies that worked
Recasting task to draw upon an existing skill (ASL hand
shapes -- learning a dance)
Using mnemonic devices
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17. Strategies that worked
Metacognition
knowing that a strategy is needed
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18. Strategies that worked
Metacognition
knowing that a strategy is needed
choosing a strategy to try
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19. Strategies that worked
Metacognition
knowing that a strategy is needed
choosing a strategy to try
monitoring performance as task progresses
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20. Strategies that worked
Metacognition
knowing that a strategy is needed
choosing a strategy to try
monitoring performance as task progresses
adjusting strategy to maximize performance
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21. Strategies that worked
Metacognition
knowing that a strategy is needed
choosing a strategy to try
monitoring performance as task progresses
adjusting strategy to maximize performance
reflecting upon one’s performance
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23. LIMITING FACTORS
• Number of stimuli - exceeded short term
memory capacity (7 + or - 2 items)
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24. LIMITING FACTORS
• Number of stimuli - exceeded short term
memory capacity (7 + or - 2 items)
• Time limit - not enough time to encode items
reliably into memory, increasing anxiety
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25. LIMITING FACTORS
• Number of stimuli - exceeded short term
memory capacity (7 + or - 2 items)
• Time limit - not enough time to encode items
reliably into memory, increasing anxiety
• Task anxiety - competes for working
memory space!
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27. LIMITING FACTORS
• Difficulty with motor execution of tasks
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28. LIMITING FACTORS
• Difficulty with motor execution of tasks
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29. LIMITING FACTORS
• Difficulty with motor execution of tasks
• Primacy effect - preferential memory for the first
stimulus seen, as it makes a bigger impression for
being first and is rehearsed most
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30. LIMITING FACTORS
• Difficulty with motor execution of tasks
• Primacy effect - preferential memory for the first
stimulus seen, as it makes a bigger impression for
being first and is rehearsed most
• Recency effect - preferential memory for the last
items - nothing further to compete for memory
space
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31. LIMITING FACTORS
• Difficulty with motor execution of tasks
• Primacy effect - preferential memory for the first
stimulus seen, as it makes a bigger impression for
being first and is rehearsed most
• Recency effect - preferential memory for the last
items - nothing further to compete for memory
space
•Primacy + recency effects = losing items in the
middle!
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