EXP3604 Exam 3 |146 Questions and
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Memory Strategy - -you perform mental activities that can help to improve
your encoding and retrieval.
- Divided Attention - -Back-round music, extroverts and introverts
- levels of processing - -o Deep processing emphasizing elaboration &
distinctiveness rather than simple rehearsal
Uses "why" questions
- Survival of Processing - -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 - -o Refers to the fact that memory is better when we
generate associations if ourselves compared to when we simply read them
- Elaboration - -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 - -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 - -o which means that one memory trace should be
different from all other memory traces.
- Von Restorff effect - -o Means the advantage in memory that distinctive
items have over less distinctive items
- Self-reference Effect - -o in which you enhance long-term memory by
relating the material to your own experiences.
- encoding specificity principle - -o Study strategies should consider how the
info will be tested
- Overconfidence - -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. - -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? - -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. - -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? - -Self Reference Effect
- 5. Discuss a possible issue associated with the example of the generation
effect discussed in class. How could this be fixed? - -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. - -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. - -a. For this class it's good to answer
questions and apply then just straight definitions
- 8. Think about ways in which you can avoid overconfidence on this
upcoming exam. - -Take breaks and test yourself
- Total-time hypothesis - -o The amount u learn depends on the total time
you devote to learning
- Distributed Practice Effect - -o You will remember more material if you
spread your learning trials over time
Spaced learning
- Massed Learning - -o You'll remember less if you try "cramming," by
learning the material all at once
Answers
Memory Strategy - -you perform mental activities that can help to improve
your encoding and retrieval.
- Divided Attention - -Back-round music, extroverts and introverts
- levels of processing - -o Deep processing emphasizing elaboration &
distinctiveness rather than simple rehearsal
Uses "why" questions
- Survival of Processing - -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 - -o Refers to the fact that memory is better when we
generate associations if ourselves compared to when we simply read them
- Elaboration - -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 - -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 - -o which means that one memory trace should be
different from all other memory traces.
- Von Restorff effect - -o Means the advantage in memory that distinctive
items have over less distinctive items
- Self-reference Effect - -o in which you enhance long-term memory by
relating the material to your own experiences.
- encoding specificity principle - -o Study strategies should consider how the
info will be tested
- Overconfidence - -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. - -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? - -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. - -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? - -Self Reference Effect
- 5. Discuss a possible issue associated with the example of the generation
effect discussed in class. How could this be fixed? - -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. - -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. - -a. For this class it's good to answer
questions and apply then just straight definitions
- 8. Think about ways in which you can avoid overconfidence on this
upcoming exam. - -Take breaks and test yourself
- Total-time hypothesis - -o The amount u learn depends on the total time
you devote to learning
- Distributed Practice Effect - -o You will remember more material if you
spread your learning trials over time
Spaced learning
- Massed Learning - -o You'll remember less if you try "cramming," by
learning the material all at once
