EDP 304: Rewind Time

This is a picture of Luke on a mountaintop. How'd he get up there?

• He hiked up.

• He rode a car up.

• He rode a train up.

• He got heli-dropped on the top.

You saw 15 practice words, then 15 real words at the start of class. Choose the one reason that does NOT explain why you, on average, remembered the real words 5 times better.

• Retroactive interference from real words overwrote memories of the practice words.

• The real words were chunked (grouped by category).

• You practiced remembering the real words.

• You had to more effortfully process the real words (living vs not) than the practice words (third letter a vowel?).

In order to learn anything, we first have to...

• be in the right headspace.

• decide to learn.

• pay money.

• pay attention.

The fact that people remembered the cars moving at different speeds when given different descriptions (bumped vs smashed) suggests that memory is...

• reconstructive

• perfect

• visual

• always completely and totally wrong

Neurons that fire together, _____.

• retire together

• transpire together

• wire together

• spontaneously combust (neural pyroplasia)

Learning should NOT feel ___.

• cyclical

• easy

• hard

• novel

Which of the following is the most effective study strategy?

• Summarizing

• Rereading

• Highlighting

• Retrieval practice

Which of the following is the most effective way to schedule your study time?

• Spacing multiple sessions out over time

• Having one, big, dedicated block

• Reviewing material immediately after you first learn it

• Waiting until right before the exam so it's all fresh

The multi-tasking game got harder as more tasks were added. Why?

• Sensory memory stores got overloaded!

• Working memory stores got overloaded!

• Long term memory stores got overloaded!

• Somatic memory stores got overloaded!

True or False: You can multitask.

• True

• False