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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 section “Tips from the Science of Memory-for Studying and for Life”, found in our textbook, “Experience Psychology”, the Arthur Laura A. King discusses the importance of study habits. She addresses the skills needed to turn short-term memory into long-term memory through organizing, encoding, rehearsing and retrieving the information we study and memorize. “No matter what the model of memory you use, you can sharpen your memory by thinking deeply about the “material” of life and connecting the information to other things you know.” (King. 2013).

Both elaborative rehearsal and organization are principles that have been shown to enhance explicit retention of information in long-term memory. Elaborative rehearsal is a complex rehearsal that involves thinking about the meaning of information in order to store and remember it as opposed to just repeating it over and over (Ashcraft & Radvansky, 2014). Elaborately rehearsed information is deeply stored in the memory and as a result it aids the retention of information in long term memory. For instance, using the term, “every good boy does fine”, in order to remember the musical notes EGBDF on the lines of the treble clef is an example of elaborative rehearsal. Moreover, researchers have uncovered evidence that supports the effectiveness of elaborative rehearsal to enhance explicit retention of information in long term memory. Elaborative rehearsal improves recall (Bunce & Macready, 2005). Bunce and Macready (2005) found that greater elaborative rehearsal was that basis for improved recollection amongst young adults. Bunce and Macready (2005) conducted a study that consisted of 104 participants that studied two lists of semantically unrelated nouns. Results suggested that elaborative

When it comes to test-taking, you cannot only visualize these images, but you can also almost feel, smell, and hear these outrages images. When having to remember the order that a certain list goes in, associate them with the order of objects you see as you walk through your house. Sometimes, metaphors can help you to remember concepts too. Another studying tip is to write down what you are trying to learn. Dr. Oakley has found that this encodes the material into your brain more. In addition to writing material down, reading it back to yourself can be very beneficial because you are using two senses now: sight, and

Learning and retaining new information is a part of everyday life, so finding techniques to help enhance learning and retaining information for recall can be beneficial to almost everyone, especially students. It is believed that testing can help increase the likelihood of later retrieval of information (McDermott, Agarwal, D’Antonio, Roediger, & McDaniel, 2014). Testing with an opportunity for feedback can be the most beneficial for later recall, as opposed to just recalling the information for an exam (Karpicke & Roediger, 2007). The purpose of the current study is to examine if testing can help to improve memory recall more than regular studying.

Mnemonic strategies are interactive images, which are used to support the memory associations are also used in the method of connection, which is used to learn an ordered list of items. The peg-list method can be used to learn sorted lists because actually built on the interactive images that combine a couple of words, word a plug with a white-list of words. Similarly, the method of loci can be seen as the peg-list method, as a way to learn a list of words by forming associations between

This experiment is based on previous research done. For example, in 1969, in a research by Bower and Clark, no difference in the immediate recall scores of both groups was noted, but when later asked to recall, those who used narrative chaining recalled an average of 93% of the words compared to the control group which only recalled an average of 13% of words. In another experiment, participants who used narrative chaining remembered six times more information than participants who learned by simply repeating the words to themselves (Loftus, 1980). Narrative chaining is particularly useful when a person wants to remember information in a particular order. The aim of the study is to investigate the effectiveness of narrative chaining on memory. It is hypothesized that in a group of 59 participants aged 10-69 years old, participants who use narrative chaining to remember a list of words will remember a higher number and percentage of words when asked to write down as many words as possible through serial recall compared to participants who use maintenance rehearsal.

Using paired wordlists of nouns, Bower and Gordon demonstrated this in their 1970 experiment. In their study, they had undergraduate students learn paired wordlists by one of four methods – rehearsal of the two words; reading a sentence in which one of the words acted upon the other (i.e. “The boy hit the ball.”); creating a sentence which linked the two words (i.e. “Nancy threw her bag on the table.”) or creating a mental image of the two words together (i.e. imagining a basket of flowers) (Bower & Gordon, 1970). Results found that students who employed imagery did better on recalling the word pairs in comparison to other methods and those who utilized rehearsal had the lowest recall rate out of the four groups (Bower & Gordon, 1970).

As everyone is familiar with, trying to learn all of the material at one time is called “cramming” and while cramming may get you through the test the next day, research shows that it is actually a very poor way to learn for the long term. The theory of the spacing effect was also developed by Ebbinghaus in 1885, and the spacing effect has held up to numerous testing by researchers over the years. In 1967, Geoffrey Keppel tested the spacing effect on college students using nonsense syllables paired with adjectives (i.e. lum-happy). Half of the subjects studied the list eight times in one day (massed practice) and the other half studied the list two times on each of four successive days (distributed practice). Keppel then tested their memory either one day after the final study session or a week later. The results showed that both groups do fairly well if they are tested the next day, but there is a considerable drop-off in recall if they are tested a week later. Even after the one week delayed testing, the group that exercised distributive practice showed little to no forgetting. Thus, to counter the sharp slope on the forgetting curve, it is extremely important to initially review materials within a day of learning it and to review a couple times after that. Often we feel that we can’t possibly make time for a review session every day in our schedules, but this review is

This was a study conducted at IUP on undergraduate students to see if processing information at certain levels would improve memory recall. During the study, we presented the participants with a PowerPoint of information on a made-up country. The participants was randomly assigned to a shallow, medium, or deep processing instruction, which explained to them how to take notes throughout the presentation. After, students’ recieved a distractor task for 15 minutes, and after given a multiple-choice test on the information showed on the slides. The results showed that there was no significant difference between note taking instructions and the number of correct answers. All three-task instructions in the study showed similar means on the recall test.

Thirty-two responses mentioned that a small amount of information is beneficial to learning. “The less information present, the easier it is to learn and memorise.” This comment illustrates how small amounts of information enhances the amount that is learnt.

Cognitive load theory (CLT) suggests that the human cognitive architecture and working memory in particular have an extremely limited capacity for consciously processing new information (Sweller, 1988). Such limitations allow for very few pieces of information to processed at one time. This is unlike the long-term memory, which is capable of storing large, if not unlimited amounts of information without conscious effort from the learner. Research on working memory has direct implications for instructional design. Cognitive load theorists are proponents of strongly guided instruction such as worked examples, which they argue keeps the working memory functioning below capacity.

Strategies and devices that help us remember information that requires effortful processing are: encoding its meaning, visualizing, and mentally organizing the

About Mnemonics: Mnemonic devices are useful memory aids that can be applied to many different aspects of daily life. There are always certain tidbits of information that people just can’t seem to remember in the form they are presented. People rely on mnemonics when they create some association between that information they wish to remember and other concepts that they already know, or find easier to remember. The use of mnemonics has also been shown to be of significant value in the field of education. Manalo has shown that instruction using a specific type of mnemonics known as “process mnemonics” produced improvements of mathematical ability in students classified as learning disabled [3].Process mnemonics are used

Mnemonics devices assist in memory recall (Terry, 2009). According to Seay (2010), mnemonics are effectual because they change non-significant information into tactile, substantive agents. Data is recoverable because it is implicit in detail. Mnemonic's makes an “association between the content to be learned and a cue---keyword, phrase, or image with which the student is already familiar” (Seay, 2010, p. 36) . There are various schemes to use mnemonic acquisition such as the “keyword, narrative story, and the imagery method” (Seay, 2010, p. 43). The keyword method was first formulated to assist in international language learning. This method assist one using mental