Quiz 3 Flashcards
(75 cards)
Maria has excellent study habits. She seems to know just what to review and how long to spend on each part of every course. Maria is applying what type of knowledge?
Conditional
Self/Regulatory/Conditional Knowledge
Knowing how to manage your learning, and knowing how and when to manage your procedural and declarative knowledge
Alec still remembers how to touch-type, even though it has been three years since he has practiced. What is the memory system most directly involved here?
Procedural
Declarative Knowledge
Knowing “what”, facts, generalities, rules, etc.
Procedural Knowledge
Knowing “how”, knowledge in action
A photographer shoots a flashbulb directly into your eyes. For the next few seconds, all you can see are big blue dots everywhere you look. What type of memory is most directly involved in this phenomenon?
Sensory
Megan tries to remember the address, 10 Anchor Street, by imagining a ten-dollar bill attached to the anchor of a ship. What is the memory strategy called that she is using?
elaborative rehearsal
You are given a math problem to solve. As you try to remember the formula involved, what memory system is being searched?
Long-term semantic
Long-term memory that is memory for meaning is called what?
Semantic
Mark can answer the physics problem because of patterns of knowledge stored in his long-term memory, which he did not intentionally try to learn. This situation involves Mark using what?
Implicit Memory
When we intentionally try to learn something new, we are involving what type of long-term memory?
Explicit Memory
Traditional views of concept learning suggest that we recognize examples of a concept by doing what?
Identifying defining features or attributes
Which one of the following behaviors is a defining attribute for the concept “bird”?
Growing Feathers
Noah counted the legs on a bug and came up with eight. He then decided the bug was an arachnid (spider) because an arachnid has eight legs. His decision was based upon what aspect of concept learning?
Defining attribute
When you mention “dogs,” both Bethany and Ashley would picture collies. In relation to the concept “dog,” what would the image of a collie be?
Prototype
Prototype
Best example or best representative of a category
Little Billy was accustomed to seeing Officer Sam O’Reilly walking around the block, but then one day he met Officer Sally Murdock. Billy gave her a suspicious look and said, “You can’t be an officer, you’re a lady.” Billy’s concept of a police officer was probably based on what?
Prototype
In order to understand the large amounts of information inherent in complex concepts, people must develop structures or patterns called____.
Schemas
Long-term memory for how to do things is referred to as what?
Procedural memory
Based on studies of context, in what location would a student be likely to perform best on an educational psychology test?
Educational psychology classroom
Ms. Gentry took her tenth-grade biology students to the Horticulture Garden. The students were able to observe and classify a wide variety of exotic plants. Why might the students in her class be likely to remember the names and characteristics of those plants?
Context
According to the levels of processing theory, what determines the length of time information is remembered?
How completely the initial learning was accomplished
What is an educational application designed to reduce the impact of the serial-position effect?
Break down the lesson into small parts that can be handled quite easily
Based on the serial-position effect, what group of letters of the alphabet should be the most difficult to remember for someone who is first learning the alphabet?
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