Learning and Cognition

📋 Course Outline

1. Memory Palace Technique
2. Spaced Repetition and Serial Position
3. Models of Memory and Cognition
4. Neuroplasticity and Learning
5. Cortisol and Declarative Memory
6. Biological Bases of Memory
7. Cognitive Load and Technology
8. Research Methods and Examination

📖 1. Memory Palace Technique

🔑 Key Concepts & Definitions

• Method of loci : A mnemonic strategy that improves memory and recall by associating information with specific physical locations or landmarks in an imagined mental space.

📝 Essential Points

🔄 Process — The method of loci uses spatial memory by mentally placing information along a familiar route, such as rooms in a house, so that the locations cue later recall.

• Dressler found in a true experiment that participants who learned the method of loci recalled twice as many words as participants who did not use it.

💡 Memory Hook

Place information along a familiar route

📖 2. Spaced Repetition and Serial Position

🔑 Key Concepts & Definitions

• Spaced repetition : A memory-improvement strategy based on distributing rehearsal or learning opportunities over time.

📝 Essential Points