Exam 6: Leveraging Technology and Developing Information Competency

People's memories of the moment in which they learned of events such as the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, Princess Diana's death, and the 1986 Challenger explosion are termed ________ memories.

Ralph is preparing a report on his academic field trip to a manufacturing plant. He is trying to remember each event of the trip in the order in which it occurred to prepare an accurate report in a presentable form. Which of the following memory tasks is Ralph using?

Short-term memory is limited both in the amount of information it can hold at one time, and in how long it can hold that information. Describe several strategies one might use to overcome the capacity and duration limitations of short-term memory. How might one use these strategies when studying for course materials? Provide concrete examples.

A(n) _____ is a stimulus that allows us to recall more easily information that is in long-term memory.

A schema is:

Which of the following most likely makes use of heuristics?

The theory that language acquisition follows the principles of reinforcement and conditioning is known as the ________ approach.

The levels-of-processing approach:

We look up a number in the phone book, push the book away, and then begin to dial the number. Why do we discourage an interruption during this process?

Chad is puzzling over a difficult question on a multiple-choice sociology test. He re-reads the question, scans the options beneath the question, and glances at other questions on the test. Most likely, Chad is looking for:

Distinguish between an algorithm and a heuristic. Provide an example of each.

When you tell an acquaintance your telephone number, you do not recite the digits one by one at a constant rate, as in "3, 3, 7, 2, 3, 4, 8, 3, 9, 2." Rather, you might say, "3, 3, 7 . . . 2, 3, 4 . . . 83, 92." This exemplifies ________, a strategy to enhance ________ memory.

The notion that language shapes and determines the way people in a particular culture perceive and understand the world is known as the ________ hypothesis.

Which of the following statements accurately captures the relationship among the modules of long-term memory?

Those raised in the United States are most likely to use ________ relationships to categorize.

A research participant is required to report as much of a poem as he can remember, immediately after having read the poem once. We would expect the greatest number of recall errors in lines:

Rehearsal serves to:

How does the use of a schema improve memory?

Describe in as much detail as you can the mental representation of objects and categories. Provide illustrative examples where appropriate.

A political science professor attempts to facilitate her students' completion of a term paper assignment by requiring to first submit a topic statement, then a list of references, then a draft of the introduction, then, finally, the completed paper. The professor is encouraging her students to use the problem-solving strategy of: