Trying to explain a concept to a friend is a good way of testing your own grasp of it, and at the same time engages you in a form of elaborative rehearsal. The most effective studying techniques are those that enhance understanding. Discussions or arguments about various topics will enrich the subject matter and add to its meaningfulness. Study groups provide a context for elaborative rehearsal. Enriching the material by concentrating on its meaning not only makes it more understandable, it also helps establish potential pathways for subsequent retrieval. For example the learner can generate personal examples that help illustrate concepts or principles. Instead, elaboration strategies that engage the learner in understanding the material are helpful, both for storing information, and for retrieving it in the future. Such a strategy would be hopelessly inefficient and ineffective. However, this does not work well for transferring memory into the long-term memory because we are not connecting. According to the lesson commentary, this is basically repeating something over and over again so we are able to remember it. In these situations, reciting the information over and over again is not going to help commit it to memory. The only way to extend the amount of time we remember certain information is through maintenance rehearsal. There are numerous occasions on which students are required to remember large amounts of relatively complex information-certainly more complex than a phone number. This second main type of rehearsal involves associating new material with information that already exists in long-term memory. One way to prevent the decay of information from short-term memory is to use working memory to rehearse it.

Elaborative Rehearsal Unlike maintenance rehearsal, elaborative rehearsal uses the meaning of the word to help recall. In order to retain information for longer periods of time, elaborative rehearsal is more useful. Using maintenance rehearsal can increase that time to about 30 seconds. It is effective for maintaining relatively small amounts in memory for brief periods, but is not likely to affect retention in the long term. Maintenance rehearsal typically involves rote repetition, either out loud or covertly. One of the advantages of a touch tone telephone is that the number can be dialed more quickly compared to the old rotary dial phones, thereby reducing the length of time required to keep the number in memory. This illustrates the fact that new material will fade from memory relatively quickly unless we make a purposeful effort to remember it. We have all had the experience of looking up a phone number and subsequently forgetting it (or part of it) before we have dialed it. This method is effective in maintaining information over the short term.

The first is maintenance rehearsal, which involves continuously repeating the to-be-remembered material. Similarly, if we want to retain information over time, there are strategies for enhancing future recall. Actors rehearse their lines so that they won't forget them. Elaborative or maintenance rehearsal strategy-use during a verbal working memory task was the grouping variable for a study that tested whether group membership distinguished 53 healthy adults by age, education, or performance on reading comprehension and verbal working memory tasks. Its technical meaning is not very different from our everyday use of the term. Rehearsal is a term used by memory researchers to refer to mental techniques for helping us remember information. All rights reserved.Mental activities associated with committing information to memory. Thus, although adults spontaneously use some of these strategies, rehearsal might not play a causal role in keeping information in working memory.Д®laboration refreshing rehearsal short-term memory working memory.Д¬opyright В© 2019 Elsevier Ltd. Experimental manipulations of articulatory rehearsal have yielded working memory benefits in children, but not in adults experimentally induced refreshing prioritizes the refreshed information, but yields little benefit compared to a baseline without induced refreshing and elaborative rehearsal improves episodic long-term memory but has little effect on working memory. Evidence for the effectiveness of these strategies is surprisingly weak. This review evaluates the effectiveness of three forms of rehearsal: articulatory rehearsal, attention-based refreshing, and elaborative rehearsal. A common assumption in theories of working memory is that a maintenance process - broadly referred to as rehearsal - is involved in keeping novel information available. Elaborative or maintenance rehearsal strategy-use during a verbal working memory task was the grouping variable for a study that tested whether group.