GE CLST 73B Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Explicit Memory, Degenerative Disease, Anterograde Amnesia
2 Apr 2017
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Making things hard on yourself, but in a good way by elizabeth ligon bjork. Elizabeth ligon bjork: professor of psychology in ucla: research in visual attention and developmental processes. Robert bjork: professor in psychology at ucla: research in human learning and memory on implications of science of learning. Elizabeth bjork was motivated to examine why students" study activities were sometimes so ineffective. Robert bjork wanted to understand the relationship of forgetting and learning since he put effort as a graduate student. Optimizing learning and instruction requires going against intuitions: we are misled by subjective impressions ex) rereading chapter provides familiarity that we think is comprehension or understanding. Learning vs. performance: performance: what we can observe and measure during instruction or training, learning: permanent change in knowledge or understanding. Storage strength vs. retrieval strength: storage strength: how entrenched or interassociated a memory representation is with related knowledge and skills, retrieval strength: reflects current activation or accessibility of representation.
