Reflection Assignment 5

Reflection Assignment 5 Name University Course Instructor Date Discussion of Chapter Concepts and Memory Connections In the two chapters of A Busy Student’s Guidebook to Success, the authors provide tips on goal setting, time management, and designing efficient study skills. These chapters focus on purposeful learning strategies, such as breaking down tasks and using planning tools such as the planner. These strategies are closely associated with ideas from Memory, especially as practices directly affect the quality of learning and recall. For example, Baddeley et al. (2020), the authors talk about how the working memory is constrained and how further slicing of tasks is commensurate with this constraint to give students a working memory that can process content without impacting the cognitive load. Likewise, relying on the planner to set a time for reviewing helps exercise spaced repetition, which has been revealed to improve long-term memory because the brain is given time to process the new information provided. These memory strategies are artificial and useful because they lessen demand and structuralize storage and retrieval processes in students’ minds. According to Baddeley et al. (2020), the growth of the impact of c...