The Fight Against Forgetting Pre-Assessment

TRUE OR FALSE: When learning is harder (more challenging), it lasts longer, is more durable.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Focusing conscious awareness on a stimulus or task. It allows you to selectively process information.

• Retrieval

• Attention

• Consolidation

• Encoding

A limited capacity system that temporarily stores and manipulates information needed for complex cognitive tasks. It's involved in executive functions.

• Spaced practice

• Working memory

• Interleaving

• Encoding

The process of transforming information into a construct that can be stored in memory. It involves linking the new info with existing knowledge.

• Consolidation

• Retrieval

• Encoding

• Attention

The process of stabilizing a memory trace after the initial encoding. This involves physical changes in the brain to strengthen synaptic connections.

• Encoding

• Consolidation

• Spaced practice

• Interleaving

TRUE OR FALSE: One way to master a new skill for life is to give it dogged, single-minded focus, practicing over and over until you have got it down.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Distributing learning episodes over time with breaks in between, as opposed to cramming. This enhances long-term retention.

• Retrieval

• Spaced practice

• Working memory

• Consolidation

Mixing up practice of different skills or topics rather than blocking practice of one thing before moving to the next. It promotes discrimination and flexibility.

• Attention

• Interleaving

• Encoding

• Retrieval

TRUE OR FALSE: If you simply go over something you have learned enough times, you will burn it into your memory.

• TRUE

• FALSE

The process of accessing information from long-term memory storage. It involves reconstructing the memory by using cues.

• Consolidation

• Encoding

• Retrieval

• Interleaving