QLD Unit 3 Improving Memory

If you want to remember someone's name and use the memory technique of repeating it over and over, you would be using ____ to keep the name in _____

• Mnemonics; Long-term memory

• Maintenance rehearsal; Short-term memory

• Elaborative rehearsal; Short-term memory

• Selective attention; Sensory memory

Mnemonics are.....

• strategies for forgetting
• strategies for improving memory
• strategies for improving life
• strategies for chunking

Using the the acronym Roy G. Biv to studying the colors of the rainbow. This is a good example of 

• mnemonic
• spacing effect
• visual encoding
• acoustic encoding

The fact that there is approximately 70% average for the MC of the exam and less than 50% for the SA section is evidence that

• Recall is a more sensitive measure of retention than recognition

• Relearning is the most sensitive measure of retention

• The reconstructive nature of memory

• Recognition is a more sensitive measure of retention that recall

Organizing items into familiar, manageable units.

• chunking
• mnemonic
• relearning
• recall

If you want to remember someone's name and use the memory technique of repeating it over and over, you would be using ____ to keep the name in _____

• Mnemonics; Long-term memory

• Maintenance rehearsal; Short-term memory

• Elaborative rehearsal; Short-term memory

• Selective attention; Sensory memory

If you relate new information to material that you already know, you are practicing

• elaborative rehearsal.

• chunking.

• the Method of Loci.

• the spacing effect.

What is the worst way to form long term memories?

• Having a strong emotional experience to a memory.
• Spaced Practice
• Elaborative Rehearsal
• Mass Practice

Which of the following has a tendency to be the hardest way to learn something?

• When positive transfer occurs.
• Using shallow processing.
• Using elaborative rehearsal
• Using deep processing.

This scene from Inside Out where the mind workers are getting rid of "faded" memories illustrates what concept?

• Storage decay

• Retrieval failure

• Encoding errors

• Recall