Cognition Chapter 6 Memory Strategies and Metacognition

Exam 2 

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Your knowledge about and control of your cognitive processes
Metacognition
The amount you learn depends on the total time you devote to learning
Total - time hypothesis
When does study time predict GPA
Only when quality of study strategies are also taken into account
You will remember more material if you spread your learning trials over time (spaced vs. massed learning)
The distributed - practice effect
Taking a test is actually an excellent way to boost your long- term recall for academic material
The testing effect
What did Roediger and Karpicke suggest with regards to the testing effect?
Reading essays, testing immediately or after delary, with repeated study of intervening test (is good)
Provides practice in retrieving the relevant material - which produces desirable difficulties
Testing
The use of mental strategies to improve memory
Mnemonics
Mental representations of stimuli that are not physically present
Imagery
Useful for unfamiliar vocab and learning names. You pick a keyword that sounds familiar to the new work you want to learn
The keyword method
Create an image that links the keyword with the meaning of the new word
The keyword method
What was Carney and Levin's experiment
Learning the names of unusual animals
Associated the items to be learned with a series of visual images of physical locations
The method of loci
What is the method of loci useful for?
Leaning a list of items in a specific order
Bring order to material to be learned, deep processing, easier retrieval
Organization