Learning

Question 1

T or F: The more knowledge in long term memory, the easier it is to acquire new knowledge.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

What is the idea that the more knowledgeable a student is on a topic, the less guidance they need.

Answer 2

Expertise reversal effect.

Question 3

T or F: When students have a lot of knowledge on a subject, too much guidance can actually impede learning.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Some students like to study while listening to music while others view it as a distraction . . . What explains this?

Answer 4

You guessed it . . .The students who can listen to music have better working memories. The caveat is that most students should avoid listening to music while studying math because math and music use overlapping parts of the brain, exhausting that part of working memory.

Question 5

T or F: The more knowledge in long term memory, the easier it is to add more.

Answer 5

True

Question 6

Wit the right amount of information in the long term memory, people can effortlessly process enormous amounts of information- even if their working memories aren’t that capacious.

Answer 6

True

Question 7

What are the two ways you can get information into the long term memory?

Answer 7

Declarative pathway and procedural pathway.

Question 8

Declarative or procedural? Which one uses working memory?

Answer 8

Declarative