How might your
knowledge of the memory processes guide your instructional decisions?
Understanding the memory processes dramatically impacts my instructional decisions as a teacher. For instance, knowing that visual stimuli are lost after one second and auditory after two to four seconds spurs me to repeat information and present the material in different ways. Also, because working memory has a limited capacity of seven items, I will not expect students to learn more than seven pieces of imformation at a time. Additionally, when assessing students, I will include a variety of questions ranging from rehearsal, encoding, or retrieval. Finally, I will draw on students' prior knowledge and existing schema in order to help them store information into their long-term memories.
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