Exam 1_Study Skills

Question 1

Popular strategies that have a low effect

Answer 1

• Summarization
• Highlighting
• Keyword mnemonic
• Imagery use for text learning
• Rereading

Question 2

Retrieval practice

Answer 2

• Effective and efficient
• Practice tests
• Best with feedback
• Bet with recall rather than recognition questions

Question 3

Distributed practice

Answer 3

• Effective and efficient
• Spreading out the study content over an extended time period
• Most effective when using effective strategies

Question 4

Successive relearning

Answer 4

• Combining distributed practice with retrieval practice
• Effective and efficient
• Session 1: learn material to a specific criterion using practice tests (criterion could be a specific number of times you complete the practice test perfectly)
• Subsequent sessions: restudy to one complete recall
• Restudying will be relatively quick

Question 5

Promising strategies with limited applicability or where further research is necessary

Answer 5

• Elaborative interrogation
• Self-explanation
• Interleaved practice

Question 6

Self-explanation

Answer 6

• Making connections, deliberate focus on comprehension
• Active engagement with the material
• Activating prior knowledge

Question 7

Massed vs distributed practice

Answer 7

• Massed: studying all your notes the days before the exam, can include practice tests
• Distributed: weekly studying of notes, can include practice tests