Psychology Brochure

Learning ' Memory

semantic memories; these are memories of general factual knowledge that you know. The temperature at which water freezes is an example of a semantic memory

When we are trying to remember and process a list of items the serial position effect comes in. We remember the words at the beginning of the list (primacy effect) and the words at the end (recency effect) better than the ones in the middle.

deep processing or elaborative processing. This method tries to connect the new information with already learned information or with devices that allow information be put in and retrieved from memory easier. These memory devices are called mnemonics. Here are a few examples:

Roy G. Biv (the colors of the rainbow in order: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet).A rat in the house may eat the ice cream (how to spell arithmetic).HOMES (the great lakes: Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, and Superior

memories that are procedural. They are the memories of how to do something. An example of a procedural memory is being able to ride a bike

observational learning or learning by watching others.

Latent learning is learning that appears not to have been retained at the time of conditioning but it is displayed at a later time.

By Shelton Mills

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