Erling, Sara_MED_2020

Title Erling, Sara_MED_2020
Alternative Title Training Special Education Teachers on Developing Short-Term and Working Memory in Students
Creator Erling, Sara
Collection Name Master of Education
Description Since the 1950s, psychologists, educators, and researchers have become more and more interested in the role that memory plays in cognition and learning. Whether it be the smell of a certain perfume that reminds people of their grandmother or the process of adding two plus two, brains are capable of storing over 2 petabytes, or over 2 million gigabytes, of information (Reber, 2010). Some of these memories are embedded in the unconscious and are not easily accessible or have been suppressed for some reason. Others are very vivid and remembered as if the memory was made the day before. The brain is where information received from the sensory channels gets processed through short-term (STM) and working memory (WM) and is stored in our long-term memory (LTM) (Atkinson & Shiffrin, 1968; Martinez, 2010). Over the past 30 years, professionals in neuroscience and psychology have dedicated research to STM and WM, its development, and its relationship to the development of language, learning, and academic achievement. The development of memory is critically important as the brain has such an enormous capacity to store information, and this is what makes learning possible (Eliot, 1999).
Subject Education; Psychology; Education--Research--Methodology
Keywords Cognition and learning; Development of memory; Neuroscience
Digital Publisher Stewart Library, Weber State University
Date 2020
Language eng
Rights The author has granted Weber State University Archives a limited, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to reproduce their theses, in whole or in part, in electronic or paper form and to make it available to the general public at no charge. The author retains all other rights.
Source University Archives Electronic Records; Master of Education in Curriculum and Instruction. Stewart Library, Weber State University
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Format application/pdf
ARK ark:/87278/s65mdvfa
Setname wsu_smt
ID 96809
Reference URL https://digital.weber.edu/ark:/87278/s65mdvfa
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