Exam 8: Cognitive Approaches to Learning

Samantha learns French one semester, and then takes a Spanish class the next semester. When Samantha tries to remember how to say something in French, she can only think of the Spanish vocabulary she learned. This is an example of which of the following?

In serial recall, students are presented with a list of items, and their task is to repeat the items back in the order they were presented.

Declarative memories that rely on arbitrary symbols that bear no obvious relation to whatever is being represented.

Students generally do better to study via distributed learning versus massed learning.

In free recall, students are presented with a list of items, and their task is to repeat the items back in the order they were presented.

Jonathan looks up a phone number in the phone book. In order to remember it while he dials it, he repeats the number over and over to himself. Jonathan's continuous repetition of the number is termed _______.

Memory is the active mental mechanisms that enable people to retain and retrieve information about past experience.

This memory technique involves taking the information to be learned and trying to associate it with other things you know, or trying to associate various items of the to-be-learned information.

The way a word looks (its physical appearance) is most deeply processed in the brain and thus provides the best way to commit that word to memory.