The Memory Process Activities #2

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Organizational Schemas. Our brains are natural pattern seekers. Your brain will find it easier to remember information if you make associations or connections between ideas. These associations create a structure of knowledge for information which is easier to remember than random facts. Creating your own study guides, making a concept map, and comparing and contrasting ideas are examples of study techniques that fall into the category of organizational schemas. For example, you might think that Waldo Hall is a building at OSU (new information) that looks like a castle from the Harry Potter books/movies (stored information).

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What are organizational schemas and how and why do they work?