W2 Lecture 3 Notes PDF

## 8/9 W2 Lecture 3 - **Infantile amnesia:** - Very little memories before the age of 4-5 - Brains are not fully formed yet - Don’t really have schemas - **Schema:** Makes memories more efficient - **Reminiscence bump:** - A lot of memorable events happen around your 20s that people...

## 8/9 W2 Lecture 3 - **Infantile amnesia:** - Very little memories before the age of 4-5 - Brains are not fully formed yet - Don’t really have schemas - **Schema:** Makes memories more efficient - **Reminiscence bump:** - A lot of memorable events happen around your 20s that people remember 30 years later. - Period of rapid brain development - Lots of new things being tried at that age - **Try studiousity for written work!** - **Recognition** stays the same as you age - You are asked if you have seen something before - **Recall** drops as you age: - You must recall (blank piece of paper) - Old people don’t try as hard to recall. - Entirely motivational (VAHAL !!!) - **Context matters for better recall:** - Environment - Smells - Sights - Music/sounds, etc. - **Seek Serenity before/after study period:** - Sleep - Walk, jog, etc. - **Structural encoding**: Phonemic encoding -> Semantic encoding - Level of depthness ## **Cognitive offloading** - People who know something will be recorded pay less attention - Self testing very powerful. Even just write what you know on a blank sheet of paper.