All in For Students
The strategies that we advocate for all have been shown to improve memory, to increase the likelihood or frequency that we will remember something in the future. But today I’m not going to talk about remembering something. Today I want to talk about forgetting.
What better topic to compile resources on when one is doing so very late at night? Ah, sleep, of course! We’ve written in the past about the importance of sleep for memory and cognition, the combined power of sleep and learning strategies,
We're right in the middle of a season where a lot of us are giving thanks and reflecting on the year we have had. For some of us it is because of American or Canadian Thanksgiving, Japanese Labour Thanksgiving, or Turkish National Day of Thanks,…
Psychologists often breakdown memory into different types. Long-term memory can be divided into two different types: explicit memories and implicit memories.
We’ve talked a lot about dual-coding and the benefits of combining visual and verbal information. This week we’ve gathered some resources on how to apply that to note taking.
Imagine if I asked you this question: “Are there large parts of your childhood after age 5 that you cannot remember?”. How would you answer: Yes, or no? Are you sure? And what might influence your answer?
