BAS1 Improving Memory

Ebbinghaus discovered that most forgetting occurs:

• in relaxed surroundings
• immediately after learning
• a week after learning
• when in a similar state

A/an ______ is a word or pronounceable syllable made up of the first letters of the items we are trying to remember.

• context-dependent cues
• acronym
• narrative chaining
• state-dependent cues

Forgetting refers to ______ to retrieve information.

• access
• ability
• inability
• struggling

Context-dependent cues and state-dependent cues are examples of the___________.

• retrieval failure theory
• decay theory
• motivated forgetting
• encoding specificity principle

QANTAS is an example of ______.

• narrative chaining
• encoding
• acronym
• acrostic

Recall is the _______ measure of retention.

• least sensitive
• most sensitive

_________ refers to identification of the correct information among a list of incorrect pieces of information.

• recall
• recognition
• relearning
• encoding specificity principle

_________ refers to learning again something that previously committed to memory.

• retrieval
• maintenance rehearsal
• relearning
• recognition

Verbal mnemonics include:

• encoding, storage, retrieval
• sensory , STM, LTM
• acronyms, acrostics, narrative chaining.
• maintenance rehearsal , elaborative rehearsal

Mrs. B decided  she would quiz her class on facts memory. She asked them a series of MC questions they had to answer. This required her students to use what type of recall to remember the information?

• recognition
• free
• serial
• cued