Why is learning so hard? Is it because of lack of motivation, distractions, the material is too challenging, or learners are just not interested in the topic?
- Using examples from your own school experiences, describe events that illustrate the use of episodic memory in your own learning.
- Using examples from your own school experiences, describe events that illustrate the use of semantic memory in your own learning.
- Comparing the two, which type of memory model works better for you in a learning environment? What strategies have enabled you to retain information when you are learning?
- Provide at least one example from your educational experiences for each strategy you listed in the third bullet point above.
- Discuss how the encoding distortions of selection, interpretation, and integration play a role in these two types of memory.
- Integrate information from the text chapters and the required readings in addition to what you learned about attention last week to support your examples.
Be sure to use your own Academic Voice (Links to an external site.) and apply in-text citations appropriately throughout your post. The In-Text Citation Helper: A Guide to Making APA In-Text Citations (Links to an external site.) tutorial can clarify further questions you might have on APA.
Guided Response: Respond to at least two of your classmates’ post remarking how similar or dissimilar their examples are from yours, using the concepts of memory from this week’s readings.
