Psychological concepts and studying

Question 1

inattentional blindness is…

Answer 1

when we miss anything that happens outside of our focus but believe that we have seen everything

Question 2

the cost of multitasking

Answer 2

things like listening to music are splitting your attention
multitasking can more than double the time it takes to perform a task

Question 3

short-term memory is…

Answer 3

the memory for what you are doing right now

Question 4

limitations of short-term memory

Answer 4

limited capacity: incoming items can push out existing item
duration: gone after 30 seconds

Question 5

solutions for STM limitations

Answer 5

rehearsing: repeating info over and over again
chunking: organizing seperate bits of info into a chunk

Question 6

spaced practice

Answer 6

multiple study sessions

Question 7

elaboration

Answer 7

making meaningful associations

Question 8

retrieval practice

Answer 8

testing yourself(recalling)

Question 9

overlearning

Answer 9

keep studying regardless

Question 10

organization

Answer 10

organizing info you want to remember

Question 11

rhyme

Answer 11

making rhymes

Question 12

first letter technique

Answer 12

acronyms to use one word to remember many words

Question 13

method of loci

Answer 13

visualizing ideas in areas of somewhere familiar

Question 14

keyword method

Answer 14

good for learning languages

Question 15

Metacognition is…

Answer 15

a student’s awareness of their level of understanding of a topic (students with poor metacognition don’t realize they don’t know something) overconfidence: they believe they have a good understanding but it is shallow