Memory Test

663highland

YF12s

Pedro Szekely Gokul Ashok Nanmaran

Saranya Chidambaram

Ricardo Liberato

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Students Struggling• Hidden curriculum: where is memory taught?• Like learning to read—once you get past it initially, it’s

hardly ever addressed again

• First-year students, transfer students, and graduate students face similar challenges:

• Do they feel they belong in this classroom?

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Memory

• Information-Processing Model:• 1. Encoding: information acquired• 2. Storage: information stored in the brain• 3. Retrieval: information re-accessed

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Retrieval & Recall

• Free recall: Write an essay about…• Cued recall: Fill in the ___________.• Recognition: a.) tacos; b.) hamburgers; c.) tonsils.

• Primacy effect: first things first (in memory)• Recency effect: last things last (longer in memory)

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Storage & Forgetting

624-hour window

• Decay/transience• Interference• Forgetting Curve:

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Memory Encoding• Encoding Information:

• New information is encoded as we learn: sensory input is turned into meaningful information the brain can store

• Elaborative Encoding uses many methods:• Mnemonics (ROY G. BIV)• Chunking (1948411747 1948 411 747)• Memory Palaces• Telling Stories

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Memory Encoding• Make it a game:

Tell a story…What do you know?

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56 32 16 44 72 17 37 69 29 1

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68 60 12 80 40 9 41 65 25 73

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The Memory Palace

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You can go home again!

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You probably remember what goes into a deck of cards…10

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And tarot cards offer even more memorable pieces…11

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Or maybe baseball cards—you might know the players, stats, results of your favorite sports

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Maybe your cards and stats are from other games… but that’s still a huge body of knowledge!

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Cars, maybe, comprise your knowledge. Classic cars? All the more memorable.

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Carrots, heirloom varieties, could serve you well.

Or color wheels: do you know your vermilion from your cinnabar?

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Calendars could be your thing—maybe you remember the weekday of every date…

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Cats could compose your cranial catalog…

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Can you tell these horses apart? If so, you can memorize…

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Perhaps you’re better with ponies.

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Things to Remember:

• You’ve created memorization tools your entire life• Put them to work! The weirder, the better.• A good place to start:

Joshua FoerMoonwalking with Einstein($11, Penguin books)

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