Maintain rehearsal is a method used in our Mindtap program to help us student remember vocabulary word by repeating them over and over so that they remain in our short-term memory. Unfortunately, these methods only store the information in ones short term memory and is not the best for retaining mass amounts of information. In order to convert the short term memory into long term memory, a technique called elaborate rehearsal can be used. Pastorino and Doyle-Portillo in the General Psychology textbook defines elaborate rehearsal as a method that “ involves forming association, or mental connections, between the information in the short-term memory that you want to store and information you already have stored in your permanent long-term memory”. (276) Mnemonic like My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas (Pluto was still a planet when I learned it) helps many students remember information with the now eight planets in our solar system. Acronyms, like PEMDA to help remember the orders of operations can also be very
Maintain rehearsal is a method used in our Mindtap program to help us student remember vocabulary word by repeating them over and over so that they remain in our short-term memory. Unfortunately, these methods only store the information in ones short term memory and is not the best for retaining mass amounts of information. In order to convert the short term memory into long term memory, a technique called elaborate rehearsal can be used. Pastorino and Doyle-Portillo in the General Psychology textbook defines elaborate rehearsal as a method that “ involves forming association, or mental connections, between the information in the short-term memory that you want to store and information you already have stored in your permanent long-term memory”. (276) Mnemonic like My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas (Pluto was still a planet when I learned it) helps many students remember information with the now eight planets in our solar system. Acronyms, like PEMDA to help remember the orders of operations can also be very