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Jtsstl (talk) 17:04, 19 September 2011 (UTC)
What I Might Add About Declarative Learning
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Declarative learning is acquiring information that one can speak about. Contrast with motor learning. The capital of a state is a declarative piece of information, while knowing how to ride a bike is not. Episodic memory and semantic memory are a further division of declarative information.
There are two ways to learn a telephone number, memorize it using your Declarative Memory or punch it into your brain 1,000 times to create a habit. Habit learning is called striatal memory or striatum memory.
Declarative memory uses your Medial Temporal Lobe and you can recall the telephone number at will. Habit (Striatum) memory activates the telephone number only when you are at the phone and uses your right-hemisphere's skill Pattern Recognition.
Research indicates Declarative and Habit memory compete with each other during distraction. When in doubt the brain chooses Habit memory because it is automatic. Google Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 7.25.07 Russell A. Poldrack UCLA.
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In K. J. Holyoak & R. G. Morrison (Eds.) 2005. Cambridge Handbook of Thinking and Reasoning. New York: Cambridge University Press
Complex Declarative Learning
Michelene T.H. Chi Stellan Ohlsson
A chapter that talks about complex knowledge being divided into declarative knowledge (knowledge of facts) and procedural knowledge (knowledge of how). They say they will talk about the basic characteristics of complex declarative knowledge and changes that occur in declarative knowledge as it is learned. Not sure if this is totally consistent with the current entry.
I believe declarative knowledge is also a Wiki entry- probably need a link.