Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Module 11 Post 2
A girl wants to learn how to french braid hair. She's watched her sister do her own hair and has watched many YouTube videos. This has gone through her sensory memory- she's seen how the hands work and how they're supposed to pull separate parts. Her sensory memory has focused on the importance of her hands grabbing certain parts of the hair and has filtered out the rest of the hair. Once she's finally mastered the process of french braiding, rehearsal is the only way to completely store the information. This is maintenance behavior because she's just repeating a set of learned information. The process of french braiding is committed to long term memory and will be at a high activation level when she's asked to braid her sister's hair now. It's a recognition task now because she's being ask to retrieve information she's previously learned.
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This is a great example of retrieving a memory. But I'm also confused as to why this is not the same as what Carly said in class about when a song came on, she remembered the dance to it. This is one of the tasks that rehearsal and repetition will commit to long term memory.
ReplyDeleteI like your example, but rehearsal isn't a method of moving information to long term memory!! (<that's important). Rehearsal only keeps information in working memory/conscious thought. It is not a process of encoding (moving information to LTM), and all methods of encoding require connecting to existing knowledge.
ReplyDeleteWe did talk about an example like this in class, and how it may not mesh with your common sense. That may be true (and brain research might be more intuitive to you in explaining how repetition helps learning!) but according to the IP model, movement to long term memory requires connecting to prior knowledge already stored.