Tara gave a speech on aviation technology and decided to bring a model of a passenger airplane with her to help illustrate some of the concepts she discussed. In this scenario, Tara used a visual aid.
What are the benefits of this? It can help reduce speaker nervousness. It can add clarity for an audience. It helps keep the audience involved.
Bringing in large photographs of the small objects Carlos is preparing visual aids for a speech to his United States Government class and has a number of important points to make, resulting in a slide with 14 lines of type. In order to make sure his slides are legible, Carlos should spread his points across multiple slides.
Type of implicit memory awakens memories with the help of retrieval cues
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Recently learned information interferes with the retrieval of things learned in the past.
States that memories are more easily recalled when the context and cues at the time of encoding are similar to those at the time of retrieval
Learning sessions occur generally within same day or in relatively close succession
Visual impression in our sensory memory are photographic-like in their accuracy but dissolve in less than a second
Grouping numbers, letters, or other types on information into meaningful "chunks" of information