EDUC262 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Piggy Bank, Descriptive Knowledge, Procedural Knowledge
28 Aug 2018
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A system for permanently storing, managing, and retrieving information for later use. Some things are forgotten or are discarded if we thing we don"t need them. Declarative knowledge: (cid:1688)knowing that(cid:1689), facts and concepts, experiences, explicit recall. Procedural knowledge: (cid:1688)knowing how(cid:1689), skills and abilities, habits and conditioning, implicit recall/influence. (explicit recall may be automatic or deliberate; implicit is automatic) Combination of both declarative (remembering ingredients) procedural knowledge (the ability to fold flour) Semantic memory: general knowledge, facts, concepts, independent of context. Episodic memory: personal experiences, autobiographical, temporally specific, contextually specific. Knowing you had eggs for breakfast: declarative knowledge, episodic memory. Remembering your first day of school: episodic. Organised structures that capture knowledge and expectations of some aspect of the world. Abstract knowledge structures that organise vast amount of information. Episodic events: personal, time and context specific. Must be active for learning/recall to occur. Arbuckle et al (1990) influence of schema activation: Participants provided with the heading recalled more.
