Memory Strategies are strategies that improve memory by organizing information. The Method of Loci is where you make associations with a place or part of the building. (Example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ez8GTrtp81I&feature=relmfu) Peg-Word System: is the peg words are associated with ideas. Word Associations: are verbal associations that are created for items to be learned. Chunking is a memory

strategy that organizes items into familiar, manageable units.

Students were asked to recall as many of the US states possible. See how many you can recall. NO CHEATING!

Students were asked to recall as many of the US presidents as possible. See how many you can recall. NO CHEATING!

Add Trump to this list!

The serial position effect most likely occurred in the presidency recall. This is the tendency for recall to be affected by the order of encoding. Primacy Effect is more likely to recall items at the beginning of a list and the Recency Effect is where you are likely to recall items at the end of a list (Washington and Obama, Trump).

The serial position effect graphed for presidents.

The SPACING EFFECT is the most important term you will ever learn in this course. The spacing effect is the distribution of study or practice yields better long term retention (instead of studying the NIGHT BEFORE).

The environment you are in can depict or influence your memory. Flashbulb memories, mood congruent memory, and state dependent memory all are influenced by surrounding pressures. Mood Congruent Memory- Anger provokes memories of other instances you were angry. State Dependent- lost your keys during your hangover and it takes you being drunk to find them again.