1. Bell Work
What are the 4 types of LTM and give an example of one of them?

2. Today’s Topics LTM Storage Memory retrieval Forgetting
How to improve your memory

3. Long term storage Storage: Like a network of connections. Animals pets
dog
cat
wild
lion

4. 2 ways to retrieve information
1) Recall: Involves searching for and producing information from memory
Who was your 3rd grade teacher?
Partial recall: aka Tip of the Tongue
***At your table come up with 5 other questions that would be considered recall.
2) Recognition: just identifying whether or not you’ve encountered something…(can you recognize it?)
Like a multiple choice test…
Who on this list was your teacher?

5. Factors that can affect retrieving information
State Dependence: ability of your mood is part of the memory trace linking the information
If you are in a good mood when studying but are in a bad mood during the test you are less likely to remember it
Context dependence
Relying on the context to understand the meaning
Ex: You recognize someone at the mall but cant figure out where from until they are at the place they always are

6. Reasons for forgetting
Decay
Interference
Amnesia: temporary or permanent loss of memory
Physiological causes: car wreck, brain tumor
Substance abuse
Psychogenic causes: our brain represses information that is highly emotional
Reasons for forgetting

7. How to improve your memory
5 ways to improve memory:
1. Principle learning: start simple and progress harder
2.Schemas: everything is connected
3.Mnemonics: Letters or sentence represent facts
(my very elegant mother just set up nine planets order of the planets)
4. Chunking: putting things together
5. repetition

8. Complete the following
Use this graphic organizer to help you remember the definition of memory on your test on Friday!
Now is the time to ask questions and get caught up on anything you may have missed from the last couple of weeks.