Exam 6: Memory Strategies and Metacognition

You have enrolled in Professor Lawrence's Sociology class this semester, and a friend (who took the same professor last year) warns you that Professor Lawrence tends to speak rapidly and present a great deal of information in a short time. You decide to be sure that you have read the assigned textbook chapter before each class meeting to familiarize yourself with the concepts before the lecture begins. Your strategy is based on the idea of

Your instructor for your History of Psychology class has told you that using the chapter outline in the textbook is a good way to study for the exam. This suggestion is based on research supporting the use of ________ as study aids.

Colin has high reading comprehension abilities, as measured by his scores on the verbal SAT. Stefan has only average reading comprehension. Both Connor and Stefan read a series of unfamiliar text passages, and then answer reading comprehension questions about the passages. For the items for which Connor and Stefan both express an average certainty rating of 75%, you would expect that

The research on practice and memory improvement demonstrates that

Which of the following is not an example of a mnemonic technique that emphasizes organization?

Which of the following students provides the best summary of why a person's confidence is important to the topic of memory strategies and metacognition?

Prospective memory errors are especially likely to occur when you are simultaneously

The tip-of-the-tongue experience is related to metacognition because

The term "tip-of-the-finger effect" refers to a subjective experience of knowing a target word but not being able to recall it right now, as experienced by

Suppose that a friend tells you a phone number that you need to dial, as soon as you are done talking. You don't have a pencil, so you remember it by grouping it into two sections, one with three digits, and one with four digits. The method you have used is called

Heather complains that her professor's Powerpoint slides are crowded with details and that she can't copy what is on the slides while listening to the lecture and taking notes on what is being said. Heather's complaint has to do with the limits of her

Suppose that a friend is having difficulty in introductory psychology, so you decide to give her some memory tips. If you decide to emphasize metamemory, you would be likely to

Harrison knows that he will typically perform better in an exam if he reads the textbook chapters in the early afternoon and if he reviews the material by trying to explain it in his own words. Harrison is demonstrating

Elaine memorized the lakes of the Great Lakes by using the word HOMES (Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior). Elaine has used the

According to research on the testing effect,

Which of the following students has the best understanding about how to apply the distributed-practice effect?

Suppose that you are a counselor at a summer camp, and you want to learn the children's names. You decide to rehearse the names during each mealtime for 3 days. This would be an example of a technique called

According to Baddeley's approach to working memory, the central executive plays a role when students are studying for an exam

The hierarchy technique is an example of a mnemonic device that primarily emphasizes

If you had one important message about memory improvement that you could convey to a friend, what should it be?