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“Knowledge Acquisition & Memory Development”




Knowledge Acquisition & Memory Development


PSY 331 Psychology of Learning




Knowledge Acquisition & Memory Development

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“Knowledge Acquisition & Memory Development”



It is overwhelming and intriguing to attempt to understand our capacity to learn.

The annals of our mind are likened to space travel in that we know something is

undoubtedly out there, but we cannot fathom the enormous amount of discovery

that awaits us is limitless.Rosser’s research revealed Plato as believing “The human

soul” is divided into three ways. 1. Cognition as the things we know, 2. Emotion as

the things we feel, and 3—motivation as the things we want (Rosser-Majors, 2017).

When we concentrate more onhow we cultivate knowledge, we can better

accessinformation later when needed by exercising our minds to almost upload it

unconsciously in our memories.

When we considerhow memory development relates to obtaining

newknowledge, we must focus on working memory. Working memory is the system

in our mind that gives us the ability toretain small amounts of information to be

immediately utilized temporarily. I learned through my reading that a well-known

psychologist named Alan Baddeley, discovered“…working memory is a brain system

that provides temporary storage and manipulation of the information necessary for

such complex cognitive tasks as language comprehension, learning, and reasoning”

(Rosser-Majors, 2017). To understand how working memory affects the retention of

knowledge,we candevelop and use processes and tactics to support productive

learning (Rosser-Majors, 2017).

It is essential to move information from short-term memory to long-term

memory successfully.Working memory has a limited capacity being able to hold

about seven items for approximately 20 seconds.Long-term memory is where we

store our schemata, which governs how our information will be categorized and

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