Memory

A four Stage Model of Memory

Working memory

Must use active learning, students lack this. Organizes the information, associates new info with old

Short Term memory

Long term memory

Sensory Register

Reception of stimuli, register perceptions, information is quickly lost

Comes from sensory input, without constant use, it is easily lost

From short term memory and created through the use of long term memory. Stores information and gives it meaning.

Listening

Listening does not always= hearing. You must concentrate on what is being said. It will be processed in the brain. Hearing= little concentration

Bloom's Taxonomy of Cognitive Domain

Multi-sensory learning

Presenting brain with stimulus, combining all 3 senses (tactile, auditory, and visual). Better way of memorizing. Form of active learning

Apply

Understand

Analyze

Know/ Remember

Evaluate

Create

Compile information in a different way

Recalling facts, terms, basic concepts

Organizing, comparing, translating

Solve problems by using new knowledge

Examine and break information into parts, inference

Judge, critique, validate ideas based on criteria

Learning

Active learning

Passive learning (least effective)

Memorizing is not the same as understanding

Learning styles

Auditory

Visual

Tactile