Memory
Techniques to help advance your students in the classroom
Memory
Memory is in any system; human, animal, or machine, that encodes, stores, and retrieves information. It is the persistence of learning over time through storage and retrieval of information.
Encoding
- structural encoding- how things look and are shaped
- phonemic encoding- remembering sounds
- acoustic encoding- take information and turn it into sounds
- semantic encoding- remembering stuff that has meaning better than their structure and sounds
- automatic processing- learning to read reversed sentences at first requires effort, it becomes more automatic
- effortful processing- requires attention and effort
Three Steps of Memory
Encoding
Encoding is the process of getting the information into the memory, or forming a memory code. It could be either automatic or take more of an effort.
Storage
Storage is the retention of the encoded material over time.
Retrieval
Retrieval is the process of getting the information out of the memory storage. You can either recall it or recognize it.
Effective way for students to remember information
Mnemonic Devices
- Chunking- you can chunk different information together to remember (ex: 123-456, instead of 123456)
- Music- you can make up different words to remember what things are in music (ex: FACE for SPaces on the treble music staff)
- Spelling- you can make up different sayings to remember how to spell things (ex: A rat in the house may eat the ice cream; Arithmetic
- Grammar Rules- you can make different rhymes and things to remember your grammar (ex: I before E except after c)
- Math and Science- you can make different sayings and such to remember different properties of math and science (ex: PEMDAS; parenthesis, exponents, multiply, divide, add, subtract)
- Random- there are some extra ways to remember things (ex: For driving: Up, Up, and Away- when parking your car on an up grade the wheels should turn away.
Talk to Mr. Campbell at CHS for more information on Memory
Cinnaminson High School
Cinnaminson, NJ
Cinnaminson, NJ
Email: campbellb@cinnaminson.com
Website: www.cinnaminson.com
Phone: (555)-123-4567