I’m slightly confused about several concepts in this week’s reading, but unfortunately I can only take about one. I’m mainly confused about how the visuospatial sketchpad, episodic buffer, phonological loop and episodic long term memory relate, contrast and compare with each other. Are some of them different perspectives of how our memory is being processed, or are they all working together at the same time? And if they are, what is going on? I’m just really confused about it in general.
According to the Information Processing Theory, learning is the processing of information turning into long-term memory basically. Information first goes through the sensory memory, then through the working memory which involves encoding the information, then into long-term memory (storing it for later use), and then being able to retrieve it later on (readily available for later use). I would apply the information processing theory into my teaching by making sure the students are having all of their information encoded properly through task analysis. Task analysis is a way to break down difficult lessons, concepts and/or ideas into more easily understandable steps so they can store it into their long-term memory more efficiently.
In a math class, the teacher should make an overhead projector visual display of each step to solve particular kinds of algebraic equations, so the students can remember it better later on when test time comes. This also involves using a visual, which is the strongest encoding strategy to promote storage into long-term memory.
*Step 1- Sensory Memory: the student sees the chart of the step-by-step process on how to solve the algebraic equation, which has caught their attention and perception.
*Step 2- Working Memory: the student is encoding (storing into long-term memory) what they’re learning through the task analysis process that the visual is promoting.
*Step 3- Long-term Memory: the student has now stored the information into their long-term memory and is now able to retrieve it more easily next time they are given an equation of the particular kind to solve.
I'm going to try and tackle this, because i thiiiink i understand it! so i hope this helps!
ReplyDeletethink of the phonological loop and visuospatial sketchpad as siblings...they are in the same category. The phonological loop helps us retain AUDITORY information, while the visuospatial sketchpad helps us retain VISUAL information.
The episodic buffer is in a category by itself. it's job is to take everything that we absorbed with sight and sound (through the phonological loop and the visuospatial sketchpad) and incorporate all those things into our long-term memory so that all of our knowledge is one and the same, even the brand-new stuff!
hope that helps!
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ReplyDeleteI understood it as the central executive tell information where to go and the options are the phonological loop or visuospatial sketchpad. The episodic buffer takes all of it and converts it into one idea.
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