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An investigation into the effects of generation on memory
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AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE EFFECTS OF GENERATION ON MEMORY LAB STUDIES: Hugh Miller By Jenni Pigeon Introduction Memory research is incredibly valuablethe modern world where we have more and more to remember, such as revision at school and university, shopping lists, prospective memory and knowledge of the world. We have generally become more interested in the ways we can improve our memory, including looking at the meaning and structure of how and what we remember and how we can reduce forgetting. Teachers and cognitive psychologists have come up with theories for improving memory but there is limited research. For example they have talked about Spacing Effect, Modality Effect, Bizareness Effect, Encoding-Difficulty Effect and Encoding-Context Effect and more. Strategies like mnemonics have been thought to help deeper processing and storage but they can only be used for unrelated material. Slamecka and Graf (1978) talked about the Generation Effect (in particular the Self Generation Effect). This...
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