Crash Course Quiz #2

Recognition refers to when your brain has seen something previously, but ________ refers to being able to pull the information directly from your memory, without seeing it.

• Recall

• Repetition

• Rogaine

• Revolution

To develop you ability to remember information, you should ________ out your studying

• space

• far

• white

• block

True or False? Mnemonics are a way to remember set of letters by making a sentence where each word starts with the corresponding letter.

• True

• False

The Leitner system uses ______ to organize study cards and organize you studying so that terms that are more difficult to recall get studied more often.

• Boxes

• Folders

• Piles

• Friends

_________ memory is very short term because it processes everything you experience, and your brain simply doesn't need to store that much information.

• Sensory

• Permanent

• Shaky

• Morning

Storage strength refers to permanent a memory is, while ______ Strength refers to how easily you can recall the memory.

• Retrieval

• Physical

• Mental

• Working

True or False? Word association is used to connect unrelated words or images with the terms that you are trying to memorize.

• True

• False

Working memory can only process 4-7 bits of information at a time. This can be increased by breaking the information into _____, like a phone number or acronym

• Chunks

• Bits

• Groups

• Habits

Which is most likely to be coded and retrieved more easily by your brain?

• An important battle in Mesopotamia from your World History class

• A Bear attacking you

• What you wore to school in 3rd grade on the 47th day of school

The Principle of Desirable Difficulty is the process of trying to remember something right before you _________

• forget it

• wake up in the morning

• go to bed at night

• take a test