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Last updated

22 February 2018

pptx, 3.2 MB
pptx, 3.2 MB
Produced this lesson to use with my year 11's in preparation for their exams.

Looks at different memory games to get them thinking about how their memory works - then explains how short term memory and long term memory work and how things can interfere with their memory.

My class really enjoyed this - both the memory games and how it applies to revision. They came away with a better understanding of strategies to use for revision.
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vancharl

7 years ago
5

gianfrancoconti1966

7 years ago
2

A clear explanation but quite few inaccuracies due to the fact that this is not based on current research. The most serious inaccuracies: (1) the items that working memory can handle at any one time are not 7 for the average human. The number, based on Miller (1956) research has been revised by contemporary researchers to 4 items on average. However, it is not the simply the number that matters; the effectiveness of working memory depends on the key processes regulating retrieval (e.g shifting and inhibiting); (2) information decays from working memory after much less than 30 seconds (this is also an old figure). The list could go on but I do not want to sound pedantic. One major shortcoming: way too much information; if you are aware of the basics of memorisation and learning, as you will be aware that 50 % of what we learn is lost after 20 minutes from first processing it; hence, this PPT is way too long, has very little recycling built into it (the most important factor in preventing decay) and contain too much information for effective learning to happen. I personally think that the author should have heeded the very recommendations she makes in her PPT when she designed it. I recommend updating it in the light of current research - this is truly passe'; add in Ebbinghaus curve indicating human forgetting rates; build in a section of effective memory strategies (see Oxford, 1990; Ellis 2000; Eysenck, 2014) and recycle key info a bit more.

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7 years ago
5

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clhurst

7 years ago
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8 years ago
4

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