ARTS 1110 – Midterm Questions with
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What factors can influence a student's ability to learn? - correct answer
✔Interest, Prior success, & Motivation.
What is a learning paradigm? - correct answer ✔The theory of learning that
lies beneath the teaching & learning practices of an educational environment.
What is active learning? - correct answer ✔Individually seeking out the
purpose & importance of information by asking questions of the instructors,
texts, & themselves.
What is metacognition? - correct answer ✔Thinking about thinking, or
monitoring one's thought processes and actively changing them to suit the
individual.
(or)
Knowing what one knows and doesn't know - ability to self-monitor levels of
understanding & predict how well one will do on a particular task.
What can metacognition help with? - correct answer ✔- Identifying &
achieving goals
- Helps find new study strategy if the current method is not producing results.
What skills does metacognition promote? - correct answer ✔- Active listening
- Problem solving
- Responsibility for learning
- Awareness of failures in comprehension
,What are the three stages of memory? - correct answer ✔Encoding,
Storage, & Retrieval.
What happens in the encoding stage of memory? - correct answer
✔Information is selected from the vast pool of sensory data surrounding the
individual.
What happens in the storage stage of memory? - correct answer
✔Information must progress from sensory storage, to short-term memory and
finally to long-term storage.
What happens in the retrieval stage of memory? - correct answer ✔The
stored information is accessed by the individual.
How can one improve the process of encoding? - correct answer ✔- Excude
competing stimuli (background noise, etc.)
- Use various sensory modes (seeing a graph while it is described will help
you remember it better than just seeing or just hearing about it)
What three forms exist within the storage stage of memory? - correct answer
✔Sensory storage, Short-term memory, & Long-term memory.
What is Sensory Storage? - correct answer ✔The first form within the
storage stage of memory. Associated with encoding: incoming sensory
information is held briefly and interpreted.
(Interpretation is the process of making sensory information comprehensible).
Sensory impressions are subject to decay/replacement. Within a few seconds
the student must decide whether or not to attend to the information (transfer it
to short-term) or allow it to be replaced.
, What is Short-Term Memory? - correct answer ✔Second form within the
storage stage of memory. Stores information obtained from Sensory Storage.
"Working memory" - retains information needed for a specific purpose (recall
the beginning of a sentence long enough to read to the end).
Limited in time: information can be lost in a short period of time. (Can lose up
to 95% of info they heard the week before).
Limited in capacity: Can only retain about 5 to 9 separate pieces of
information at once,
What are 3 ways information is transferred from Short-Term memory to Long-
Term memory? - correct answer ✔- Rote learning (repetition)
- Elaborative rehearsal (connection of new material to already learned
material)
- Recoding (rearranging, changing, grouping, or categorizing of information)
What is Rote learning? - correct answer ✔A method of transferring
information to long-term memory through repeated exposure (repetition).
(Useful for things such as multiplication tables/standardized spelling because
information is recalled in the same form every time).
Least efficient way of learning because it takes more time/energy and has
fewer retrieval cues.
What is Elaborative Rehearsal? - correct answer ✔A method of transferring
information to long-term memory by applying it to known knowledge (thinking
about information as it is being transferred).
Questioning material as it is taught develops deeper understanding of it.
Produces more retrieval cues.
What is Recoding? - correct answer ✔A method of transferring information to
long-term memory by creating patterns of organization for individual pieces of
complete solution 2025
What factors can influence a student's ability to learn? - correct answer
✔Interest, Prior success, & Motivation.
What is a learning paradigm? - correct answer ✔The theory of learning that
lies beneath the teaching & learning practices of an educational environment.
What is active learning? - correct answer ✔Individually seeking out the
purpose & importance of information by asking questions of the instructors,
texts, & themselves.
What is metacognition? - correct answer ✔Thinking about thinking, or
monitoring one's thought processes and actively changing them to suit the
individual.
(or)
Knowing what one knows and doesn't know - ability to self-monitor levels of
understanding & predict how well one will do on a particular task.
What can metacognition help with? - correct answer ✔- Identifying &
achieving goals
- Helps find new study strategy if the current method is not producing results.
What skills does metacognition promote? - correct answer ✔- Active listening
- Problem solving
- Responsibility for learning
- Awareness of failures in comprehension
,What are the three stages of memory? - correct answer ✔Encoding,
Storage, & Retrieval.
What happens in the encoding stage of memory? - correct answer
✔Information is selected from the vast pool of sensory data surrounding the
individual.
What happens in the storage stage of memory? - correct answer
✔Information must progress from sensory storage, to short-term memory and
finally to long-term storage.
What happens in the retrieval stage of memory? - correct answer ✔The
stored information is accessed by the individual.
How can one improve the process of encoding? - correct answer ✔- Excude
competing stimuli (background noise, etc.)
- Use various sensory modes (seeing a graph while it is described will help
you remember it better than just seeing or just hearing about it)
What three forms exist within the storage stage of memory? - correct answer
✔Sensory storage, Short-term memory, & Long-term memory.
What is Sensory Storage? - correct answer ✔The first form within the
storage stage of memory. Associated with encoding: incoming sensory
information is held briefly and interpreted.
(Interpretation is the process of making sensory information comprehensible).
Sensory impressions are subject to decay/replacement. Within a few seconds
the student must decide whether or not to attend to the information (transfer it
to short-term) or allow it to be replaced.
, What is Short-Term Memory? - correct answer ✔Second form within the
storage stage of memory. Stores information obtained from Sensory Storage.
"Working memory" - retains information needed for a specific purpose (recall
the beginning of a sentence long enough to read to the end).
Limited in time: information can be lost in a short period of time. (Can lose up
to 95% of info they heard the week before).
Limited in capacity: Can only retain about 5 to 9 separate pieces of
information at once,
What are 3 ways information is transferred from Short-Term memory to Long-
Term memory? - correct answer ✔- Rote learning (repetition)
- Elaborative rehearsal (connection of new material to already learned
material)
- Recoding (rearranging, changing, grouping, or categorizing of information)
What is Rote learning? - correct answer ✔A method of transferring
information to long-term memory through repeated exposure (repetition).
(Useful for things such as multiplication tables/standardized spelling because
information is recalled in the same form every time).
Least efficient way of learning because it takes more time/energy and has
fewer retrieval cues.
What is Elaborative Rehearsal? - correct answer ✔A method of transferring
information to long-term memory by applying it to known knowledge (thinking
about information as it is being transferred).
Questioning material as it is taught develops deeper understanding of it.
Produces more retrieval cues.
What is Recoding? - correct answer ✔A method of transferring information to
long-term memory by creating patterns of organization for individual pieces of
