An extensive index of resources for helping students improve study skills, memory strategies, and social skills is contained in this site. (
http://www.ldonline.org/ld_indepth/teaching_techniques/strategies.html
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There are lots of good links to information about memory, including memory and computers, how and why people remember, forgetting, and memory games to play with children. (
http://www.exploratorium.edu/memory/links.html
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This Web site explores Craik and Lockhart's levels of processing theory, including an application to reading and language learning (
http://tip.psychology.org/craik.html
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Explore numerous online games and activities that test short-term memory; it also includes memory tricks and techniques. (
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/chmemory.html
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This site includes discussion of different cognitive views and links to information about Paivio's views on imagery, Craik and Lockhart's levels of processing theory, John Anderson's views on declarative, procedural, and working memory, as well as other models. (
http://tip.psychology.org/memory.html
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Find out more about working memory. How it differs from short or long-term memory and how it affects language and reading ability in children is at this site. (
http://www.brainconnection.com/topics/?main=fa/memory-language
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Leading experts describe the main differences in the way experts and novices learn, remember, and process information. An excellent chapter on this topic. (
http://www.nap.edu/html/howpeople1/ch2.html
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This Web site provides an overview of metacognition, transfer, and implications for instructional design. (
http://www.usask.ca/education/coursework/802papers/Adkins/SEC1.HTM
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Metacognition refers to learners' automatic awareness of their own knowledge and their ability to understand, control, and manipulate their own cognitive processes. (
http://education.calumet.purdue.edu/vockell/EdPsyBook/Edpsy7/edpsy7_meta.htm
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This section of The Psi Cafe focuses on Human Development, from the beginning of life (i.e., conception) to death. Links to web sites that discuss selected topics are provided and are categorized. (
http://www.psy.pdx.edu/PsiCafe/Areas/Developmental/
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