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Direct linkMcCabe, Jennifer A. – Teaching of Psychology, 2015
Classroom demonstrations of empirically supported learning and memory strategies have the potential to boost students' knowledge about their own memory and convince them to change the way they approach memory tasks in and beyond the classroom. Students in a "Human Learning and Memory" course learned about the "Method of Loci"…
Descriptors: Mnemonics, Pretests Posttests, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques
Rowland, Emily; Skinner, Christopher H.; Davis-Richards, Kai; Saudargas, Richard; Robinson, Daniel H. – Research in the Schools, 2008
Seductive details are interesting, but sometimes irrelevant to the target material present in texts and lectures. In the current study, 388 undergraduate students read six paragraphs describing Sigmund Freud's psychosexual stages (i.e., target material). Participants in four groups also read one of two biographical paragraphs. The biographical…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Recall (Psychology), Primacy Effect, Higher Education
Cahan, Sorel; Mor, Yaniv – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2007
This article challenges Yaakov Kareev's (1995a, 2000) argument regarding the positive bias of intuitive correlation estimates due to working memory capacity limitations and its adaptive value. The authors show that, under narrow window theory's primacy effect assumption, there is a considerable between-individual variability of the effects of…
Descriptors: Primacy Effect, Memory, Intuition, Correlation
