Chapter 6 Cognitive Theories of Learning

This is a storage system that can hold a limited amount of information for a few seconds. Information currently being thought about is stored here.

• Working Memory
• Perception Memory
• Long-term memory
• Memory of Schema

This is our memory of personal experiences.

• Enjoyable Memory
• Episodic Memory
• Facilitate Memory
• Procedural Memory

An example of procedual memory, world be...

• Recalling what you did at your prom
• How your steak was cooked at Outback last night
• Riding a bike
• Who you were with when your first heard about the September 11th attacks

This theory states that information is retained in long-term memory in two forms, Visual, and Verbal.

• Paired Associate Learning
• Levels of Processing Theory
• Dual Code Theory
• Theory of Relativity

This part of the brain consist of 4 important parts, the thalamus, hypothalamus, hippocampus, and amygdala.

• Limbic System
• Corpus Callosum
• Stem
• Emptiuos Cavernous

This term means knowledge of one's own learning, or about how to learn.

• Meaningful learning
• Rote Learning
• Metacognition
• Cognition

Learning the state capitals, the names and dates of Civil War battles, or the addition and multiplication tables are examples of which form of learning?

• Serial Learning
• Free-recall Learning
• Paired-associate Learning
• Memorization Recall Learning

(A.              ) is the tendency to learn the first items presented in a list of words given to learn, an (B.          ) is the tendency to learn the last elements.

• primacy effect, recency effect
• recency effect, primacy effect
• primacy effect, special effect
• first in, first out

In the Levels of Processing Theory, individuals will remember...

• only what they process
• everything included in the notes they take
• little to nothing
• information for no more than 1 hour

Creating mental images relating to items on the list to be learned is an example of?

• Imagery
• Loci Method
• Pegword Method
• Initial Letter Strategies