CHAPTER 13: MEMORY IMPROVEMENT AND LEARNING EFFICIENTCY QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH SOLUTIONS 2024 4 major principles - ANSWER 1. Process for meaning 2. Employ retrieval practice 3. Use metamemory 4. Use distributed practice Process for meaning - ANSWER As you learn new material, focus in what it means Subjective organization - ANSWER Reorganize the information given to you and make up your own organization Technical mnemonics - ANSWER ready -made methods of learning information such as acronyms or acrostics Acronym - ANSWER A mnemonic device in which the first letters of each word in a list are formed into an easily remembered word Acrostic - ANSWER A mnemonic device in which a sentence is created where the initial letter of each word is the same as the initial letters of the words in the sequence to be remembered. Retrieval practice - ANSWER self testing Generation effect - ANSWER memory is better when we generate associations ourselves than when we simply read them Encoding variability - ANSWER if you study an item of information under several different mental and physical conditions, you will be more likely to remember it
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