Exam 6: Learning and Cognitive Processes

Many cognitive psychologists believe that human memory has three components.Describe each of these components, including both its capacity and its duration.Explain how students must process information so that it arrives at the third and final component.

What is the main difference between behaviourists and cognitivists?

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

According to the neuropsychology research, most mental action during learning and memory tasks takes place in:

According to cognitivists, what is the likeliest reason that students in the same classroom learn different things?

Which one of the following statements best characterizes working memory (sometimes known as short-term memory)?

Students' prior knowledge about a topic often influences their ability to learn something new about that topic.Explain how students' prior knowledge is involved in each of the following long-term memory storage processes: a.meaningful learning b.organization c.elaboration d.visual imagery

Ms.Henkes introduces her students to "The Stone Angel", a novel outlining one woman's perspective in late adulthood, by asking students to write a paragraph from the perspective of their grandmother.According to cognitivists, all of the following are good rationales for her practice.Which one is not?

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

Mnemonics probably facilitate learning and memory in a number of ways.Which one of the following is not a potential advantage of mnemonics?

Which one of the following statements best describes the idea that learning involves a process of construction?

In teaching "MacBeth" Mr.Pierce has students act out the scenes as well as write the dialogue in plain language.The students are likely to remember the information because:

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

Sheema needs to know her division facts for a quiz tomorrow.She wants to do as well as she possibly can on the quiz.Based on findings regarding automaticity, which one of the following would be the best advice to give Sheema?

A language arts teacher teaches her students the parts of speech-noun, verb, adjective, and so on-and wants her students to continue to remember them as they study English and foreign languages in the years to come.Considering the factors affecting retrieval of information from long-term memory, which one of the following strategies should maximize the likelihood that students will remember the different parts of speech over the long run?

Three of the following are commonly accepted explanations of forgetting.Which one is not?

An advantage of knowing some skills to a level of automaticity is that skills learned to automaticity:

Norman is studying Chinese and needs to remember that the word for "exit" is chu, so he remembers the sentence, "The choo-choo train is exiting the station." Norman's technique illustrates the use of:

Three of the following students' behaviours indicate that they are paying attention.Which one does not necessarily show that students are paying attention?

Jenny is taking a quiz that asks for the chemical symbols of 20 elements.She remembers 19 of them but cannot remember the symbol for mercury.As she walks home from school, she suddenly remembers that the symbol for mercury is Hg.Jenny's memory problem during the quiz can best be explained in terms of: