Basics of Human Memory

Basics of Human Memory

1. Meaning based

   • The gist of the idea

2. Perception based

   • Verbatim recall
     • Primacy
     • Phrase boundaries
     • Prominence

3. Stages to acquiring a new skill

   • Cognitive Stage
     • intellectualizing the task
     • discovering new strategies to accomplish it more proficiently
   • Associative Stage
     • Concentrating less
     • make fewer major errors
     • generally becoming more efficient
   • Autonomous Stage
     • basically running on autopilot