Glg 101 Week 3 Letter Nonsense

After reading about the “six hour D”, I have been interested to see how my own studying techniques compare to that of a successful and comprehensive studier. When I study for tests, I typically read through all of my notes, each of the texts, and every one the power points before even thinking about self-testing. I realize now that going through large amounts of material without actually taking the time to see if I am truly grasping each idea included in the material may not be the greatest studying technique; since, even though I do self-test at the end of my studying sessions, I tend to wait till I believe I understand every part of the material.

One of the main controversial disputes regarding education is if test taking is actually a beneficial form of a learning technique for students. Within the context of Henry L. Roediger III’s article, How Tests Make Us Smarter, Roediger goes into depth upon how giving students “low-stakes quizzes” could help improve their memory as well as consistent and spread out practice. Psychology In Action, written by both Karen Huffman and Katherine Dowdell, also restates similar learning techniques within their first chapter.

By completing the interest survey, I felt in the position of a student: to have to think on unusual things and understand that they are part of who I am. I realized that I could know a bit more about me. I learned about my favorite food and my favorite singer, which are different from 10 years ago.

Students who have mixed types of problems than students who had the same type of problems but different questions achieved higher scores on a test. By varying study material, students learn to apply a strategy to a certain type of problem while a different strategy to another problem. This provides proof that the traditional studying methods of studying the same skill repeatedly are not the best method for studying. In addition, college students had to study a list of 40 vocabulary words. College students who studied in two different rooms and another set of college students had to study in the same room for the period the college students studied in different rooms.

In the last half century several theories have emerged with regard to the best model for human memory. In each of these models there was a specific way to help people recall words and

In monitoring my behavior, I will buy a calendar and a journal and write an X on everyday of the calendar in which I accomplished my scheduled time of sleep. In the journal, I will record what I did wrong on the days I didn’t accomplish the task of sleeping at the scheduled time. I will buy the calendar this weekend and I already have a journal. I will begin this plan at the same time I begin having a timer for my scheduled bed time which is on July 17th. A reward for this intention will be a record of all the calendars I’ve used in reaching this goal, it’ll show how far I’ve come.

First, I skim the chapter, resting on big ideas that are new, complex, and/or especially confusing, and speeding through things I quickly understand--just getting the gist of things. Sometimes I jot down things if I feel compelled to; sometimes I don’t. If there were any homework problems or quizzes I don’t feel 100% confident on, I redo them until I feel comfortable. I ask the teacher any the questions I have. I read the chapter again, but this time I usually draw some diagrams and come up with funny pictures or mnemonic devices that can give me some shortcuts.

Lecture Question 1: The term attention requires several different processes including different kinds of behaviors and tasks in order to function properly. Attention comes from our cognitive processing systems and gives us the opportunity to select what information we want to process at any time. For example, when I’m looking through the lecture notes for this week, my attention has to be on what new information I’m reading about so that I can store the information and then use it to complete my homework. However, I cannot remember everything that is talked about in lecture, therefore I have to take notes down that way I can look back at them to remind myself of the new information I learned.

George A. Miller, one of the founders of cognitive psychology, is considered a pioneer who recognized that the human mind can be understood by using an information-processing model. Miller was also a leader in the story short-term memory. In Miller’s most famous article, “The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two” remains one of the most frequently cited papers in the field of psychology. In his article, Miller proposed that short-term memory is subject to certain limits, including the span of information that can be stored at a given time. provides evidence for the capacity of short term memory.

Verbal short term memories encode and represent information in a phonological form in immediate memory. This was highly supported by Baddeley and Hitch’s (1974) working memory model. Baddeley and Hitch introduce the “phonological (articulatory) loop”, a mechanism in the short term memory which helps in the retention of verbal information temporarily. (Baddeley & Hitch, 1974). As these mechanisms are heavily dependent on the phonological systems, they have brought about inefficiencies in memory encoding bringing about various effects which includes phonological similarity effect ( difficulty in recall due to similar sounding words), word length effect (recall to be more difficult with long words than short words), the unattended speech effect

XX). An important factor of on how much is actually remember is based on how much one pays attention to the information (Mohs, XXXX).

The “curve of forgetting” show the loss of memory over the course of time, it depicts how we either retain or get rid of information over time. It shows how we are losing information over time and there is no way of retrieving that information back. This reveals that we will forget the new information that we have learned unless we are constantly reviewing so it will remain in our memories. The importance of distributed practice to memory retrieval is it helps us to retain our memories whether they are good or bad. Memory revival is also important in many cases whether it is just remembering what you wanted from the grocery store to solving crimes. When going to the grocery store we typically only remember the first and last few items on the

Herman Von Ebbinghaus tested his experiments using himself as the only participant because he was not a wealthy man and could not afford to pay subjects. He was interested in learning about memory, both how we acquire new memories and how they fade. Since he knew from the beginning that certain words would be easier to remember due to personal experiences and associations, he created three-letter words that did not exist and that meant nothing to him. This lack of connection was essential as it removed any previous association which would make these words easier to remember. Ebbinghaus studied twenty words by reading them out loud and testing himself, repeating the process until he remembered all twenty of them. Once he forgot the words he

Hermann Ebbinghaus was a psychologist who pioneered the experimental study of memory. Ebbinghaus was famous for the discovery of ‘the forgetting curve’ and ‘the spacing effect’. Ebbinghaus was as well the first person to describe the learning curve. As for what Ebbinghaus demonstrated from his research was he randomly selected a sample of syllables, practiced them, and tested himself. He would get his experiments, rapidly read them aloud, eight times over, then look away and try to remember the list; by doing this he also realized that those who learn quickly also forget quickly.

McDaniel, Mark A., Daniel C. Howard, and Gilles O. Einstein. "The Read-Recite-Review Study Strategy: Effective And Portable." Psychological Science 20.4 (2009): 516-522. Print.