1) (lower-order
thinking skills required)
Describe the three-component model for human memory
and elaborate on its values and limitations.
2) (higher-order
thinking skills required)
Reflect on your favorite class during your college
or high school career. Evaluate the effectiveness of the class/instructor in helping
you learn and register the information in the long-term memory. Justify your
response by discussing how the tasks/instructional strategies the instructor assigned/utilized
helped (or didn't help) in promoting rote/meaningful learning. Be sure to use
professional vocabulary from chapter 6 in your response.
1) The three-component model for human memory was first proposed by Atkinson and Shiffrin in 1968. It consists of a sensory register, a working (short-term) memory and a long-term memory. The sensory register takes in information in a variety of forms, for example in an auditory or visual form. The sensory register can hold a large deal of information at any one time, however the information stored there doesn't last very long. Storing information in the working memory requires first paying attention to it, and then attending to the information while making sense of it. The working memory's effectiveness differs from person to person and is affected by numerous things such as age and outside stimuli. Long-term memory is where where learners store their general knowledge and beliefs about the world as well as life experiences. Often the information stored here is interconnected. Long-term memory can seemingly hold as much information as the learner needs, however stored memory can be forgotten over time if not used.
ReplyDeleteThis question fit into the low-order thinking skills of Bloom because it involved knowing information on a topic that could be grabbed straight out of the text. The elaboration aspect of the question required a deeper understanding of the three-component model, but still on a lower-order thinking level.
2) One of my favorite classes in high school, based on subject matter and instructor was AP US History. The class was information heavy but was a subject I was truly interested in so I already had a solid knowledge base. My teacher used various methods to promote long-term memory storage in the class by using mnemonic devices to remember state capitals, the order of presidents and so on. For other topics like amendments and Supreme Court cases he helped us create visual images to remember them. This made retrieval of information incredibly easy and allowed for the students to fly through tests and quizzes preparing for the AP exam. The class also utilized a healthy amount of discussion of people, events and periods. This allowed us to discover on our own the interconnectedness of many events.
This question is very much a higher-order thinking question. It requires the student to think back on a specific event and analyze a previous instructor based on the knowledge they just acquired.