EXP3604 TOP EXAM 3 PRACTICE TEST 2026
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◉ Divided Attention.
Answer: Back-round music, extroverts and introverts
◉ levels of processing.
Answer: o Deep processing emphasizing elaboration &
distinctiveness rather than simple rehearsal
Uses "why" questions
◉ Survival of Processing.
Answer: o One of the best ways to enforce coding for meaning is to
have participants evaluate to-be remembered items in terms of its
value to natural survival
◉ generation effect.
Answer: o Refers to the fact that memory is better when we generate
associations if ourselves compared to when we simply read them
◉ Elaboration.
,Answer: o The Van Restoff Effect/ you will concentrate on the speciic
meaning of a particular concept; you'll also try to relate this concept
to your prior knowledge and to interconnected concepts that you
have already mastered.
◉ Rehearsal.
Answer: o or repeating the information you want to learn, you aren't
likely to beneit much in terms of accurate recall at some later point
in time.
◉ Distinctiveness.
Answer: o which means that one memory trace should be different
from all other memory traces.
◉ Von Restorff effect.
Answer: o Means the advantage in memory that distinctive items
have over less distinctive items
◉ Self-reference Effect.
Answer: o in which you enhance long-term memory by relating the
material to your own experiences.
◉ encoding specificity principle.
,Answer: o Study strategies should consider how the info will be
tested
◉ Overconfidence.
Answer: o Beware of possible overconfidence in your own memory
skills so don't commit more errors
◉ 1. How can questioning what you are reading while studying help
improve your score on the exam? Think about levels of processing
and the generation effect..
Answer: a. It helps you get a deeper level of learning by testing
yourself
◉ 2. Why is using only rehearsal to encode and retrieve information
a bad idea?.
Answer: a. You can't remember something good just by repeating it
but if u encode it and elaborate it to your previous knowledge you'll
remember it better
◉ 3. Which memory strategy would be the most effective when
trying to learn names? Explain..
Answer: Distinctiveness
, ◉ 4. To remember the memory strategies presented in this chapter,
try relating them to your own studying habits. Which effect is being
applied here?.
Answer: Self Reference Effect
◉ 5. Discuss a possible issue associated with the example of the
generation effect discussed in class. How could this be fixed?.
Answer: a. A possible issue is that you can't always rhyme the words
it might be too complicated to rhyme certain words-may remember
the word better you rhymed with than the actual word, confound
difficulty of thought. Not generating item on ur own, It can be fixed
by making the task easy
◉ 6. Create a list of words in which you test the von Restorff effect..
Answer: a. Jump, Hop, Fly, Swim, Crawl, Putter, Vomit, Run, Skip,
Skate & Flip
◉ 7. The exams in this class require you to recall information rather
than just simply recognizing information. Given this, which type of
studying techniques might be the most effective for this class? Think
about the encoding-specificity principle..
Answer: a. For this class it's good to answer questions and apply
then just straight definitions
FULL SOLUTIONS REVIEW PACK
◉ Divided Attention.
Answer: Back-round music, extroverts and introverts
◉ levels of processing.
Answer: o Deep processing emphasizing elaboration &
distinctiveness rather than simple rehearsal
Uses "why" questions
◉ Survival of Processing.
Answer: o One of the best ways to enforce coding for meaning is to
have participants evaluate to-be remembered items in terms of its
value to natural survival
◉ generation effect.
Answer: o Refers to the fact that memory is better when we generate
associations if ourselves compared to when we simply read them
◉ Elaboration.
,Answer: o The Van Restoff Effect/ you will concentrate on the speciic
meaning of a particular concept; you'll also try to relate this concept
to your prior knowledge and to interconnected concepts that you
have already mastered.
◉ Rehearsal.
Answer: o or repeating the information you want to learn, you aren't
likely to beneit much in terms of accurate recall at some later point
in time.
◉ Distinctiveness.
Answer: o which means that one memory trace should be different
from all other memory traces.
◉ Von Restorff effect.
Answer: o Means the advantage in memory that distinctive items
have over less distinctive items
◉ Self-reference Effect.
Answer: o in which you enhance long-term memory by relating the
material to your own experiences.
◉ encoding specificity principle.
,Answer: o Study strategies should consider how the info will be
tested
◉ Overconfidence.
Answer: o Beware of possible overconfidence in your own memory
skills so don't commit more errors
◉ 1. How can questioning what you are reading while studying help
improve your score on the exam? Think about levels of processing
and the generation effect..
Answer: a. It helps you get a deeper level of learning by testing
yourself
◉ 2. Why is using only rehearsal to encode and retrieve information
a bad idea?.
Answer: a. You can't remember something good just by repeating it
but if u encode it and elaborate it to your previous knowledge you'll
remember it better
◉ 3. Which memory strategy would be the most effective when
trying to learn names? Explain..
Answer: Distinctiveness
, ◉ 4. To remember the memory strategies presented in this chapter,
try relating them to your own studying habits. Which effect is being
applied here?.
Answer: Self Reference Effect
◉ 5. Discuss a possible issue associated with the example of the
generation effect discussed in class. How could this be fixed?.
Answer: a. A possible issue is that you can't always rhyme the words
it might be too complicated to rhyme certain words-may remember
the word better you rhymed with than the actual word, confound
difficulty of thought. Not generating item on ur own, It can be fixed
by making the task easy
◉ 6. Create a list of words in which you test the von Restorff effect..
Answer: a. Jump, Hop, Fly, Swim, Crawl, Putter, Vomit, Run, Skip,
Skate & Flip
◉ 7. The exams in this class require you to recall information rather
than just simply recognizing information. Given this, which type of
studying techniques might be the most effective for this class? Think
about the encoding-specificity principle..
Answer: a. For this class it's good to answer questions and apply
then just straight definitions
