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Long Term Memory Storage

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The process of encoding is also critical to what students store in their long term memory, given that it involves “changing the form of the information” to “help them store the information more easily” (p.163). How each student organizes information will vary, and this will ultimately affect how and what they learn. Whether or not students are given the opportunity to elaborate or apply the new information learned can also affect the extent to which the individual student undergoes meaningful learning and in turn, can later recall the important concepts of the lesson.

Long-Term Memory Storage:
In order for information to be transferred from working memory to long-term memory, further processing is required, and “such processing involves combining new information with information already in long-term memory” (p.177). Individuals can store information in their long-term memory more successfully when they can relate it to the things that they already know (p.178). Therefore, even if students are participating in the same lesson or experience, they may learn and later remember different …show more content…

According to the chapter, there are several factors that affect long-term memory storage, including working memory capacity, prior knowledge, and prior misconceptions,

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