Quiz 7: Unit 1

Suppose on the first day of class (or since) you had trouble remembering how to pronounce my name. In order to enhance the likelihood of remembering the correct pronunciation: Picture me in a "cartoon" format, standing in front of an old fashioned chalk board with writing all over it. My mouth is open and I appear to have been talking a long time. The students in the room all have their heads on their desks; there are captions above the heads of the students that all show [Zzzzzzzzzz] because they are snoring. This type of technique reminds you to say my name as Zzzzzzzzzz (which rhymes with bees) rather than like Ziiiiiiiiiiis (which rhymes with eyes). This example involves the use of method of loci the use of peg word A mnemonic device a memory strategy based on the work of Ebbinghaus

A mnemonic device. p. 406... and it is why I always say: Just make your life easier and call me Brenda. :)

In order to remember that William Faulkner is a 20th century author (along with the title of one of his most important works), Samantha images herself receiving a BILL (William) in the FALL for (Faulkner) $20 (20th century) after she ordered The Sound and the Fury (and she could hear her own fury over paying so much for a used 1929 book!) for her American Literature class. The use of this mental pictures increases the likelihood that Samantha will do all but which of the following? Fail to remember the name of the author that is associated with the other information because "bill" and "fall" are so generic. remember the name of one of Faulkner's most important novels correctly recall the information about the century in which Faulkner published effectively retrieve the publication date (1929) of the novel

Fail to remember the name of the author that is associated with the other information because "bill" and "fall" are so generic. They should actually be quite vivid for this mental picture.

Remembering the name of someone you have just met by associating the person's name with a mental image was suggested by Craik and Tulving Lorayne and Lucas Simondies (Greek orator) Ebbinghaus

Lorayne and Lucas. p. 406; FYI: The author of your text cites a 2000 publication. Their work, however, goes back for decades and is fun and interesting.

Amy plans to study her list of psychology terms for her upcoming exam by making "flash cards" and saying them aloud to herself over and over and over again until she finally has them all memorized. This encoding method is known as the peg word method the method of loci elaborative rehearsal maintenance rehearsal

Maintenance rehearsal.

In order to remember a list of dates for an upcoming history exam, you will take each date (in chronological order) and pair the first one with a bun, date two with a shoe, date three with a tree, date four with a door, etc. You would be using a name-date association method recoding the method of loci the peg word method

The peg word method

All but which of the following has been shown to be important for enhancing retrieval when mnemonic devices have been used for encoding the information? Using only "bullet-point" items from a list making sure that the image involved is vivid generating the image one's self (rather than someone, like a teacher or researcher, generating the image) recalling the information in a specific order

Using only "bullet-point" items from a list p. 407; Mnemonics have been shown to work with prose and other types of information; the effectiveness is not limited to lists.

-in this class we will talk about the fact that using the first letter of each to-be-remebered item involves a technique called "recoding". In addition, the author of the text pointed of that this strategy is a mnemonic device involves nothing more than maintenance rehearsal involves a time-consuming "mind trick" that has rarely been shown to be effective is a waste of time as there are more effective ways to encode and retrieve information

is a mnemonic device

If you need to remember to pick up a few items at the grocery store (but for some reason cannot add them to a list on your phone), you might see yourself picking up a loaf of bread from the bed, a gallon of milk from the bathtub, a box of cereal from the sofa, a six-pack of soda from the top of the television, a box of granola bars from the computer table/desk, and a package of pens from the closet. Imaging these items at these locations would involve the use of all but which of the following? a mnemonic device an elaborative rehearsal strategy recoding the method of loci

recoding This involves using the first letter of each item to form a separate meaningful image.

for those of you who are fans of the BBC television series Sherlock, you are accustomed to his use of "mind palace" in which he stores information in different forms for later retrieval. For most of us, using a "house" rather than and palace would allow for storing to-be -remembered information in specific locations with a path that is quite familiar. This technique is known as the method of loci the familiar path method self-referencing the pegword method

the method of loci

Using a word that rhymes with the serial position (one, two, three, etc). to associate with items on a list of to-be-recalled information involves other-referencing the peg word method nothing more than maintenance rehearsal the use of verbal coding only

the peg word method p. 406