Quiz 1.1

Of the following examples, which is the most important factor in encoding information to be remembered later?

Actively processing the meaning of the material.

Working memory capacity is related to:

All the Above

When you try to memorize the definition of one of the concepts in your class you are using ________ learning.

Explicit

Having more knowledge about a subject...

Helps your ability to learn new related information

Which of the following is NOT related to working-memory capacity?

Implicit Learning

Remembering information about a stimulus in addition to what you intended to remember (such as position on a page) is called:

Incidental Learning

Katie and Lisa are roommates taking the same psychology class. They have a test in four days during a 10:30-11:30 class period. Both intended to study for three hours, but because of different work schedules. Katie studied one hour for each of the next three days, and Lisa studied three hours the day before the exam. What could you predict about their performance?

Katie should perform better because she has spaced her studying over the three days before the exam.

Of the following examples, which is the best way to encode material that you want to learn?

Reading a word and thinking about how it relates to you.

As soon as class is over, Karen goes to the Mountainlair, gets a cup of coffee and reviews the material from class, asking herself what she remembers, and then checking to see if she is correct from her e-text. Karen is utilizing ________ to enhance her learning:

Self-Testing

transfer-appropriate processing is likely to occur if:

The type of encoding task matches the type of retrieval task.

The study on master chess players showed that master chess players are better than average players in recalling the location of pieces on a chess board.

They can chunk the piece better into familiar groups.

The principle of ___________ states that memory is better when the test tapes the same type of knowledge as the original encoding activity.

Transfer-Appropriate Processing

Memory performance is enhanced if the type of task at encoding matches the type of task at retrieval. This is called:

transfer-appropriate processing