MEMORY AND ITS THEORIES IMPLICATION FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING

Abubakar Hussaini Yoffo

Department of Educational Psychology

Federal College of Education, Yola Adamawa State.

E-mail: abubakarhussaini121@gmail.com

Abstract: There is no doubt that all Instructors I/Cs aim at expanding the knowledge of the learners by providing both the problems and the materials with which to solve those problems. They encourage the learners to acquire and retain the knowledge gained in and outside school for future use in dealing with life situations. Experience has shown that students forget a lot of school learning after some time. This paper is concerned with the concept of memory, the information processing model of memory, types of memory, methods of measuring memory, the reasons why people forget what they have learn and the factors that instructors can use to aid memory.