List three questions you have about the midterm material (either directly from the list I gave you or describe your own questions/confusions). Respond to others' questions in the comments.
What is happening if you have information in the long-term memory but cannot retrieve it?
What is the distinction between sensory and working memory?
What is the main difference between learning and development?
A number of things could be happening if you cannot retrieve information that you have stored in the long-term memory. You could have failed to encode the information well enough to so that it never reached long-term storage. You could have storage decay in which new information that you learn fades away. Another thing that could be happening is retrieval failure where you are certain that you learned certain information but you just can't seem to bring about the mental record.
ReplyDelete2. Your sensory memory works by noticing small bits of information such as the smell of someone's shampoo or the sound of a cars motor as they drive by. Most of this information is not important and you ignore most of it. If one these sights, sounds, smells, or feelings jumps out at you and grabs your attention and is perceived important, then they can move to your working memory. In the working memory, there is only a short period of time where you encode the information to store it into your long term memory.
ReplyDeletei guess these answers are pointless because practically everybody has taken the exam at this point! i'm sorry these are late!
ReplyDeletethe differences between development and learning depend on which theory you are looking at. For example, Piaget believes that one must be developed to a certain extent before any learning can occur.