Learning and Memory

Learning is:

• The process of retrieving knowledge and bits of information related to skills that are stored in the brain

• The process of acquiring new knowledge and skills

• Memory helpers that use a phrase, word, acronym or song to help someone remember something

• when something reminds you of something else it is easier to remember

Memory is:

• The process of retrieving knowledge and bits of information related to skills that are stored in the brain

• The process of acquiring new knowledge and skills

• Memory helpers that use a phrase, word, acronym or song to help someone remember something

• when something reminds you of something else it is easier to remember

Association is:

• The process of retrieving knowledge and bits of information related to skills that are stored in the brain

• The process of acquiring new knowledge and skills

• Memory helpers that use a phrase, word, acronym or song to help someone remember something

• when something reminds you of something else it is easier to remember

Mnemonic device is:

• The process of retrieving knowledge and bits of information related to skills that are stored in the brain

• The process of acquiring new knowledge and skills

• Memory helpers that use a phrase, word, acronym or song to help someone remember something

• when something reminds you of something else it is easier to remember

Learning and Memory are Best When there is:

• Active 1st hand Experience

• Using Multiple Senses

• Emotional Engagement

King Philip Came Over For Good Soup is a mnemonic for :

• planet order: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune

• taxonomy order: Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Specie

• Colors of the rainbow: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet

Helen Keller was born deaf and blind:

• true

• false

Helen Keller went to:

• Yale

• Princeton

• Radcliffe College

• Brown

The first word Helen "Understood" with her hand sign language was:

• Food

• Mom

• Water

• Anne

Learning Facts and events is called:

• Procedural Memory

• Declarative Memory