review for quiz 1: procrastination

Question 1

what is the first study technique? (most effective)

Answer 1

practice testing
involves low stakes, self directed, flashcards, free-call retesting

Question 2

what is the second study technique?

Answer 2

distributed practice
involves longer intervals between sessions, long term retention

Question 3

what is the 3rd study technique?

Answer 3

elaborative interrogation
involves focusing on similarities and differences between right and wrong answers and generates and explanation for why a fact is true

Question 4

what is the 4th study technique?

Answer 4

self explanation
involves explaining the relation of new info with known info or explaining the steps in problem solving. students explain their own processing during learning

Question 5

what is the 5th study technique?

Answer 5

interleaved practice
involves practicing one technique at a time (blocked practice). when switching problems the solution is not in the short-term memory and the student must practice retrieval from long-term memory

Question 6

what is encoding?

Answer 6

putting info in the LTM. it is highly dependent on paying attention

Question 7

what is storage?

Answer 7

maintaining info in the LTM

Question 8

what is retrieval?

Answer 8

refers to accessing info from the LTM so that once again it is available to working memory. your ability to retrieve memories is often dependent on how you encode them