Short-term impediments that make for stronger learning are called...

• Thought Hurdles

• Brain Stretchies

• Effortful Learning

• Desirable Difficulties

The process of strengthening mental representations for long-term memory is called...

• Massed Practice

• Encoding

• Interleaving

• Consolidation

Put the steps in which learning occurs in order

• Retrieval

• Encoding

• Consolidating

New representations within the brain are called...

• Brain Farts

• Knowledge Whispers

• Memory Footprints

• Memory Traces

Human retrieval capacity is...

• Severely limited

• Unlimited

• unable to store anything

• able to store all knowledge one has ever learned with practice

New retrieval cues often ​ (a)   cues for old learning.

• displace
• strengthen
• combine with
• don't effect

The easier a skill is to retrieve...

• the more important it is to use retrieval practice

• means you've likely mastered it

• the less your retrieval practice will benefit your retention of it

• the more massed practice it requires

Mental models are...

• forms of superficial and useless skills

• forms of old memories that are sometimes useful

• forms of jumbled day-dreams and nightmares

• forms of deeply entrenched and highly-efficient skills or knowledge structures

Reconsolidating memory differs from massed practice because...

• Massed practice is easier and more effective

• Reconsolidating memory requires reconstructing components of the skill from long-term memory

• Reconsolidating memory relies on short-term memory and study habits like re-reading

• Massed practice focuses more on long-term memory and interleaving subjects

The act of trying to answer a question or attempting to solve a problem rather than being presented with the information or solution is called...

• Generation

• Interleaving

• Reconsolidation

• Insanity