Relaciones de las estrategias de codificación mnésica y la capacidad de aprendizaje con el desempeño académico de estudiantes universitarios

Abstract

The goal of this research was to determine the relations between encoding memory strategies, learning capacity, and the academic performance of psychology students in Mar del Plata National University (UNMDP). The article defines and characterizes memory, its encoding processes, and its association with learning, and analyzes these variables with respect to the performance of a sample of students in a ver- bal learning test, the TAVEC (Test de Aprendizaje Verbal Complutense). For this purpose, a random sam- ple of 83 regular students from UNMDP School of Psychology, from both genders, was used. Likewise, an analysis of the academic performance of these students was carried out. An exploratory approach showed that some variables turned out relevant in explaining university students’ academic performance.