Exam 6: Memory Strategies and Metacognition

Mandi is studying for her biopsychology exam by creating a diagram for the parts of the human nervous system. Her diagram shows two basic divisions, the peripheral nervous system and the central nervous system; each of these systems is further divided and then subdivided. Mandi is using

According to research on memory benefits from deep processing of material, students learned more in a psychology course on personality theories if they

Which of the following statements is correct about the current research on the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon?

According to the principle of memory called the total-time hypothesis,

According to the research on students' distribution of their study time, they tend to

According to the discussion of improving prospective memory,

Suppose that people are working on an ongoing task. They are most likely to forget to complete a prospective-memory task if

Which of the following students provides the most accurate summary of the research on metacomprehension accuracy among college students?

Why should you pay attention to metamemory if you want to improve your memory?

What can we conclude about college students' accuracy on measures of metacomprehension?

According to the research on the keyword method, this technique

Suppose that you have just learned that you will have a quiz in about 30 minutes on a set of fairly difficult short essays that you haven't even glanced at. If you are like the students described in the discussion of regulating study strategies, you would

Sean is studying for his philosophy final exam. He knows that the test will be all essays, and he knows that the professor often asks students to compare two philosophical approaches. As part of his studying, he writes several practice essays in which he compares some philosophical approaches. Sean's study method makes use of the cognitive principle called

In which of the following conditions is your metamemory accuracy likely to be the highest?

Chapter 7 discussed a study by Hartwig and Dunlosky, who assessed whether college students' study techniques were correlated with their college grades. This research showed that

Which of the following students provides the most accurate advice about metacomprehension?

According to your textbook, retrospective memory

Which of the following students provides the best definition of the term "ecological validity"?

Which of the following students provides the best definition of the term mnemonics?

Roediger and Karpicke's 2006 study of the testing effect indicated that taking memory tests improves retention as compared to extra studying