PYSC 101 MODULE 5 EXAM
According to memory expert Robert Bjork, understanding the long-term memory does
not have the limits that we think it does, should encourage older adults to
.work harder to improve memory.
There are three tasks of memory. Give a specific example of someone learning new
information and successfully using these three tasks of memory. Be sure to name the
three tasks of memory in your answer.
The three tasks of memory are encoding, storage and retrieval. An example of
successfully using encoding would trying to remember a new phone number and trying
to repeat the number and saying it out loud and making a song out of it or connecting it
with a familiar tune that you know in order to help "encode" or have it solidify into your
brain. An example of using storage would be learning a new language and practicing
and repeating the grammar and vocabulary so that it gradually starts to store from your
short term memory to your long term memory within time. Example of retrieval would be
retrieving the knowledge you learned during a lecture or when studying your notes from
a study guide and applying it to answer questions on a test.
Give a specific example of procedural memory. Be sure to be sufficiently detailed in your
answer, which should differ from the module examples.
Procedural memory involves performing actions that are learned skills, and performed
automatically without thinking through each step, and it not necessarily consciously
aware of doing it such as certain daily activities. For example, recently it was valentines
day and although I had not baked chocolate chip cookies in a while I had done it a few
times in the past and I was able to gather ingredients- flour, milk, eggs sugar etc. from
my kitchen without thinking about it thoroughly and then was able to go on and continue
with the next steps of baking the cookies: mixing the batter, automatically whisking
ingredients together and knowing the consistency automatically through retrieval and
storage. Although I did not know the exact temperature or read it before i knew
generally what to set the oven to and when to turn the tray in the oven and when to take
them out when it was golden enough all through procedural memory because I have
done it in the past and it came automatically and it as a learned skill.
True or false? Thinking about information and rehearsing it a little bit, over time, is a
much better way to learn information than a single intense time of study. TRUE
According to memory expert Robert Bjork, understanding the long-term memory does
not have the limits that we think it does, should encourage older adults to
.work harder to improve memory.
There are three tasks of memory. Give a specific example of someone learning new
information and successfully using these three tasks of memory. Be sure to name the
three tasks of memory in your answer.
The three tasks of memory are encoding, storage and retrieval. An example of
successfully using encoding would trying to remember a new phone number and trying
to repeat the number and saying it out loud and making a song out of it or connecting it
with a familiar tune that you know in order to help "encode" or have it solidify into your
brain. An example of using storage would be learning a new language and practicing
and repeating the grammar and vocabulary so that it gradually starts to store from your
short term memory to your long term memory within time. Example of retrieval would be
retrieving the knowledge you learned during a lecture or when studying your notes from
a study guide and applying it to answer questions on a test.
Give a specific example of procedural memory. Be sure to be sufficiently detailed in your
answer, which should differ from the module examples.
Procedural memory involves performing actions that are learned skills, and performed
automatically without thinking through each step, and it not necessarily consciously
aware of doing it such as certain daily activities. For example, recently it was valentines
day and although I had not baked chocolate chip cookies in a while I had done it a few
times in the past and I was able to gather ingredients- flour, milk, eggs sugar etc. from
my kitchen without thinking about it thoroughly and then was able to go on and continue
with the next steps of baking the cookies: mixing the batter, automatically whisking
ingredients together and knowing the consistency automatically through retrieval and
storage. Although I did not know the exact temperature or read it before i knew
generally what to set the oven to and when to turn the tray in the oven and when to take
them out when it was golden enough all through procedural memory because I have
done it in the past and it came automatically and it as a learned skill.
True or false? Thinking about information and rehearsing it a little bit, over time, is a
much better way to learn information than a single intense time of study. TRUE
