How Can the Way We Organise Our Thinking by Using Mental Images, Concepts and Schemas Help to Improve Our Memory?
Task 1
Part A
• Introduction - how I am going to approach the question? • Explain in turn, the different ways in which we organise our thinking. • How can these 3 different ways improve memory? • Refer to different psychologists research and add references into the essay for evidence and look in course book for relevant ideas • Write a conclusion • Word count and reference list
Part B
How can the way in which we organise or thinking by using mental images, concepts and schemas help us improve our memory?
I am going to find this out by looking at the different ideas we can use in order for us
to improve our memory. I will look at each idea in turn, give a definition for each of
them and prove that they can all improve our memory in some way or another; I will
achieve this by looking at relevant research that has been carried out by different
psychologists.
Our brain can store lots of different pictures from things we have seen, these are
called mental images. Mental images are the first memory aid to consider, as they can
they send cues out when we went to recall information. There have been many
experiments carried out to suggest that we will remember written or verbal
information better if we form a mental image of the information. Spoors et al. (2010,
p. 36) state that ‘this works best if the images we form are large, colourful and bizarre
as we tend to remember distinctive items rather than everyday items’. An experiment
was carried out by Micheal Raugh and Richard Atkinson (1975) and they proved that
using mental images was an effective way to help learn basic vocabulary of a new
language. They developed the key word technique, which is when you associate a
similar sounding English word (the key word) with a foreign word and form a mental
image of the key word. They carried out a simple experiment on two groups of
participants. The two groups had to learn sixty Spanish words. One of the
Part A
• Introduction - how I am going to approach the question? • Explain in turn, the different ways in which we organise our thinking. • How can these 3 different ways improve memory? • Refer to different psychologists research and add references into the essay for evidence and look in course book for relevant ideas • Write a conclusion • Word count and reference list
Part B
How can the way in which we organise or thinking by using mental images, concepts and schemas help us improve our memory?
I am going to find this out by looking at the different ideas we can use in order for us
to improve our memory. I will look at each idea in turn, give a definition for each of
them and prove that they can all improve our memory in some way or another; I will
achieve this by looking at relevant research that has been carried out by different
psychologists.
Our brain can store lots of different pictures from things we have seen, these are
called mental images. Mental images are the first memory aid to consider, as they can
they send cues out when we went to recall information. There have been many
experiments carried out to suggest that we will remember written or verbal
information better if we form a mental image of the information. Spoors et al. (2010,
p. 36) state that ‘this works best if the images we form are large, colourful and bizarre
as we tend to remember distinctive items rather than everyday items’. An experiment
was carried out by Micheal Raugh and Richard Atkinson (1975) and they proved that
using mental images was an effective way to help learn basic vocabulary of a new
language. They developed the key word technique, which is when you associate a
similar sounding English word (the key word) with a foreign word and form a mental
image of the key word. They carried out a simple experiment on two groups of
participants. The two groups had to learn sixty Spanish words. One of the