Track 5

Unit 5

Cognitive psychology

Memory

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Talk about the topic parts A and B

So why don’t we start by going over some of the memorization strategies? So guys does anyone think that any of these memorization strategies actually work? Like do any of you actually practice any of them?

Yeah, I do.

You do?

I use a cognitive one. What did he call it? verbal…

I have that here, verbal elaboration.

That’s it. I have use it in my art history class. After class I have a little conversation with myself, think about what I like and don’t like and why. It’s really help me feel more familiar with the material.

Well, isn’t that kind of common sense? I mean, think about what you’ve read and heard, don’t just memorize it.

It’s kind of different for me. I grew up learning everything via memorization, just memorizing it which is a good approach with some things.

What about the affective strategy that he mentioned? Like do any of you think that you can actually change your feelings about a subject?

That’s a tough one. Like I’m thinking of this Philosophy class, now, I just can’t get into it. The professor is so dry.

This may help, last semester this guy I sat next to in statistics, we started meeting every Sunday at Café Roma to study and we’d have questions prepared for each other and stuff and it totally helped me trough out that class.

Oh, so you’re saying, it’s my first think about who you’re gonna sit by in class.

Exactly.

Okay, that is…