Strategies

Strategies

1. Encoding specificity principle

   • Baddeley (70s)
   • Learnt words either on land or under water
   • Recalled in either same or different place
   • Same place learnt and recalled: 12.5 mean score
   • Different place learnt and recalled: 8.3 mean score

2. Use of Mnemonics

   • Method of loci
     • Picturing a item in a familiar place
   • Peg-word method
     • Make up little stories with words you want to learn

3. Organisation

   • Use conceptual hierarchies
     • Recalled more than 90% using this

4. Spacing your Studies

   • Long-term revision is better than cramming

5. Avoid Interference

   • Retroactive
     • New interferes with old
   • Proactive
     • Old disrupts new

6. Elaborative Rehearsal

   • Maintenance
     • Repeating information
   • Elaborative
     • Encodes into LTM

7. Pay Attention

   • Study alone