Exam 13: Memory Improvement and Learning Efficiency

Campbell and Mayer (2009) tested college students during classes.In one condition, students in an Educational Psychology class received a PowerPoint presentation in which questions were included as part of the presentation.In another set of PowerPoint, only statements were made.They found that:

Kornell (2009) asked participants to study difficult GRE-type words and their more common synonyms (e.g., effulgent: brilliant).Kornell found that:

Describe synesthesia.

Expanded retrieval practice meAnswer:

One problem identified in getting people to take advantage of retrieval practice is:

Technical mnemonics refer to ready-made methods for learning information.

The mnemonist Sherashevsky (also known as just S.) relied on what memory technique?

Self-regulated learning is most associated with which broad principle of memory improvement?

In a test of distracted attention and false memory, Otgaar et al.use DRM lists (Deese-Roediger-McDermott lists).They found that distraction increased false memories and decreased true memories.

With respect to metamemory and learning efficiency, which statement is true?

Kornell (2009) asked participants to study difficult GRE-type words and their more common synonyms (e.g., effulgent: brilliant).Kornell found that students who were made to distribute their study forgot many more vocabulary terms than those who were made to mass their study.

Distracted attention, as in texting during class, results in In the Stroop effect,

Research on the generation effect shows that:

Encoding variability means that:

That we underestimate future forgetting and overestimate future remembering based on what we can retrieve now is known as:

Research on the generation effect shows that participants forget the generated associations more than the read associations.

Research shows that:

Encoding variability ensures that you will have created a range of cues for the information.This means that:

Maguire, Valentine, Wilding, and Kapur (2003) were able to record memory competitors using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).Relative to normal controls, the memory competitors showed less activity in areas of the right prefrontal cortex, which are associated with spatial memory and navigation.

Explain distributed learning or practice.