PS260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Long-Term Memory, Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge, Self-Reference
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Bedmas for math in high school: organize information in a certain manor that helps you memorize and retrieve this information, limitations, if you can"t remember what the mnemonic stand for, than you are in trouble, salient in your mind, you just don"t remember everything associated with those mnemonics are. Interference: proactive interference: when previously learned information interferes with learning new information, ex. having an old manual car, and buying a new automatic car, you have to learn how to use the new car, retroactive interference: new learning interferes with remembering old learning, ex. having a to go back to using a manual car than an automatic car, ex. a year goes by after changing your phone password, and someone ask you to recall you"re old password; you may not be able to because your new password interferes with the old one.
