Learning and Memory

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This paper examines the role of race in studying the psychology of memory and how culture affects how one remembers events because it impacts how one sees one's self and identity as competent or incompetent. It also looks at how culture affects memory, as well, in terms of the meanings attached to different materials and how meaningful materials are more likely to be remembered.

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"To encourage memory in school, imagery techniques and other mnemonic strategies are often used by teachers in the hope that the image or the use of the mnemonic by the student will be more effective than if the student were to use one provided by the instructor. However, several researchers have suggested that the benefit occurs only with meaningful materials, and some researchers have found indications of a negative generation effect when meaningless material are used. (Lutz, Briggs, Cain, 2001, p.1) In short, when a student does not find something meaninful, he or she is likely not to remember it, and what is considered meaningful is by definition culturally contextual."

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