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Capla comments on Memory Improvement: Mnemonics, Tools, or Books on the Topic? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Capla 21 November 2014 09:57:33PM 2 points [-]

Ok, great. General accessibility is what I mean by "recall." Any other terms that I should be familiar with for this discussion?

Comment author: richard_reitz 21 November 2014 10:12:06PM *  4 points [-]

Yes. Lots of them. Right now, my memory deck has about 200 cards, and I'm only about 2/3 done with the course. I'll point again to Baddeley Eysenck Anderson. You seem primarily interested in long-term memory (although that may be an artifact of not knowing a lot about memory; a large benefit of having a textbook on memory is to point out "unknown unkowns"), so here are some big ones off the top of my head.

Implicit and explicit memory (also known as declarative and nondeclarative, respectively).

Episodic and semantic memory (are subsets of explicit/declarative memory)

Also procedural memory (a subset of implicit/nondeclarative memory).

You should also be aware of the testing effect and distributed practice, which, along with forgetting curves, form the basis of Spaced Repetition Software. Since many things don't lend themselve to Anki, like riding a bike, it's enormously beneficial to know about these independently.

Also Source monitoring, which leads to my favorite term, cryptomnesia.

Consolidation.

Comment author: Capla 21 November 2014 10:29:34PM 1 point [-]

You seem primarily interested in long-term memory

Primarily, but not exclusively. If there are tricks by which I can look at page for 3 minutes and then recite it from memory, I want to hear bout them.