Long-Term Memory: Encoding and Retrieval
After reading chapter seven about encoding techniques that improve retrieval, I decided to pay closer attention to how I study. I found that my studying habits were not all great. I did the majority of my studying on campus, either at the library or in a relaxed area. I would listen to music and read over the material, highlight the important terms, and finish with an overall feeling that I understood the content. When the time came to prove that I knew my stuff I was often left with the feeling that I did know the answer but I just could not seem to be able to remember it for sure.
According to chapter the way that I was studying could explain why I was unable to remember answers. My main issue was the illusion of learning that I felt after reading and highlighting my study materials. To me, highlighting seemed like an elaborative process, I was thinking about what terms were …show more content…
Encoding specificity states that we encode information and the context that were are in. Since I did study on campus and I took my exam on campus that should have helped my ability to retrieve information. However, I studying while listening to music and I took the exam in silence. According to results from Grant et al.’s studying experiment in 1998, the deference in my encoding environment and my recall environment could had negatively affect my ability to retrieve the information I that I needed. State-dependent learning theorizes that the internal state, or mood we have while learning can affect our ability to retrieve information. It is believed that we can retrieve information better if we are in the same state that we were in during encoding. Since I was relaxed while I study and more stressed and uncomfortable by exam time, state-dependent learning could have also played a part in my failing
After reading chapter seven about encoding techniques that improve retrieval, I decided to pay closer attention to how I study. I found that my studying habits were not all great. I did the majority of my studying on campus, either at the library or in a relaxed area. I would listen to music and read over the material, highlight the important terms, and finish with an overall feeling that I understood the content. When the time came to prove that I knew my stuff I was often left with the feeling that I did know the answer but I just could not seem to be able to remember it for sure.
According to chapter the way that I was studying could explain why I was unable to remember answers. My main issue was the illusion of learning that I felt after reading and highlighting my study materials. To me, highlighting seemed like an elaborative process, I was thinking about what terms were …show more content…
Encoding specificity states that we encode information and the context that were are in. Since I did study on campus and I took my exam on campus that should have helped my ability to retrieve information. However, I studying while listening to music and I took the exam in silence. According to results from Grant et al.’s studying experiment in 1998, the deference in my encoding environment and my recall environment could had negatively affect my ability to retrieve the information I that I needed. State-dependent learning theorizes that the internal state, or mood we have while learning can affect our ability to retrieve information. It is believed that we can retrieve information better if we are in the same state that we were in during encoding. Since I was relaxed while I study and more stressed and uncomfortable by exam time, state-dependent learning could have also played a part in my failing