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Long and Short Term Memory - Bransford, McNamara, and Norman (Long Term…
Long and Short Term Memory - Bransford, McNamara, and Norman
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Short Term Memory
Alot of the information about short-term seems that it's not that useful really just to process current information
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talks about epic poems and how when they were memorized there's nothing to compare back to it might have been an early use of mnemonics
when there's knowledge in the world it may be less important that it goes into your head which is a neat concept
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Long Term Memory
a lot of discussion about if you already know something it's harder to redefine the constraints of it... hard to teach an old dog or an old teacher new tricks kind of thing
Reflection: I think this is especially true for technology as it changes so quickly and somehow people tend to get more comfortable with it quickly
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passwords seem relatively absurd... even if you can find one that is hard to break generally it's an electronic process that breaks it also we tend to tape them to out screen
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When viewing complex problems experts are able to chunk information and analyze differently than novice learners
Expertise seems to stem from having more information better categorized in the brain for easy retrieval rather than just having learned a lot of Rote information
Fluent retrieval experts don't always find the information faster than others but they know how to apply it and they don't place load on conscious thought to retrieve it
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Abstraction and schema development appear to work well in transferring skills across subject matter or exploring just one in depth
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