Exam 8: The Information-Processing Approach

Ms. Sinclair is having her students practice, exert motivation, and demonstrate their talents. She tells them these are the essential features. What is she referring to?

According to the decay theory, which of the following is the cause of forgetting?

Which of the following is a good note-taking strategy?

Mrs. Johnston is a creative writing teacher. She frequently guides students to ask themselves questions such as, "How can proofreading help me in writing a paper?" "How can outlining help me in writing a paper?" or "How can peer reviews help me in writing a paper?" This teacher is encouraging students to do which of the following?

Isabella is listening to music while doing her homework. This is an example of which type of attention?

Mrs. Berstein created an activity for her students, which consists of having to reflect on their own learning and knowledge so that students can be more attentive to the knowledge they possess. Which of the following activities is Mrs. Berstein encouraging in her students?

Differentiate between two types of memory that reference the content of the information being retained.

All of the following strategies help children pay attention except which one?

Identify all of the note-taking strategies.

The difficulty that students have in dividing their attention when they do two things at once can be attributed primarily to limits in which of the following?

Examine the types of attributes that experts engage in that aid their performance over novices.

Which of the following best characterizes the duration of the sensory memory?

A metacognitive activity occurs when students use self-awareness to adapt and manage strategies during actual problem solving and thinking.

The interference theory states that which of the following circumstances causes individuals to forget information that has already been stored?

Our ability to learn new things depends considerably on what we already know about them.

Which of the following scenarios best demonstrates automaticity?

Which one of the following examples best describes thinking in working memory?

A 5-year-old child and a 15-year-old adolescent can process information at the same speed and in the same capacity.

Deliah is having trouble with her memory. She finds that when she studies for one test and then later tries to study for another one, the information from the previous test gets in the way of the information from the present test. What is Deliah experiencing?

Differentiate between a schema and a rehearsed script.