Exam 6: Learning and Cognitive Processes

When you are studying for a test, you may often try to find interrelationships among the new pieces of information you are learning.Cognitive psychologists call this process:

Which one of the following statements best describes the three-component model of memory presented in the textbook?

If you wanted to help your students learn something by using a mnemonic device, which one of the following sentences would you use?

As his teacher reads a story, Wesley pictures the main characters the way he thinks they must look.By forming visual images based on the verbal descriptions his teacher reads, Wesley is those descriptions.

Three of the following assumptions underlie cognitive psychology's perspective of learning.Which one does not?

Which one of the following statements best characterizes the duration of the sensory register?

Eunice had trouble learning the formula for calculating the area of a circle, so she is saying it to herself over and over again while the teacher passes out the geometry test.Eunice is demonstrating:

Which one of the following best illustrates automaticity?

To prepare for his test on Tuesday morning, Harry studied on Monday night.He remembered the information long enough to do well on the test on Tuesday but could not remember it for a surprise quiz a week later.Based on this information, how far in Harry's memory system did the information get?

Which one of the following situations best illustrates elaborative interrogation as a strategy for promoting elaboration?

Which one of the following statements best describes the sensory register?

Which one of the following best describes how information is stored in long-term memory?

Three of the following statements accurately characterize rote learning.Which statement is not true of rote learning?

Which one of the following is the best example of encoding while learning state capitals?

Which one of the following statements best characterizes cognitive psychology's approach to learning?

Mr.Wagner stands in front of the class explaining the process of evolution.Ellen is sitting in the front row, but her mind is on the unpleasant argument she had with her best friend just before class.Based on this information, how far in Ellen's memory system did Mr.Wagner's lecture get?

From the perspective of cognitive psychology, recognition memory tasks are easier than recall tasks because recognition tasks:

Mr.Loosigian is worried about Jerri, a girl who is struggling in his seventh-grade class.He thinks about several different reasons why she might be having so much difficulty with her schoolwork.Which one of the reasons he considers is consistent with a behaviorist perspective of learning?

A biology teacher wants students to remember the various components of a cell nucleus, cytoplasm, cell membrane).Considering what research tells us about encoding and retrieval, the teacher would be well advised to help students encode information about the cell:

In which of these situations is information most likely to be stored effectively in long- term memory?