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Cards In This Set
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Your knowledge about and control of your cognitive processes
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Metacognition
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The amount you learn depends on the total time you devote to learning
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Total - time hypothesis
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When does study time predict GPA
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Only when quality of study strategies are also taken into account
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You will remember more material if you spread your learning trials over time (spaced vs. massed learning)
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The distributed - practice effect
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Taking a test is actually an excellent way to boost your long- term recall for academic material
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The testing effect
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What did Roediger and Karpicke suggest with regards to the testing effect?
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Reading essays, testing immediately or after delary, with repeated study of intervening test (is good)
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Provides practice in retrieving the relevant material - which produces desirable difficulties
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Testing
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The use of mental strategies to improve memory
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Mnemonics
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Mental representations of stimuli that are not physically present
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Imagery
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Useful for unfamiliar vocab and learning names. You pick a keyword that sounds familiar to the new work you want to learn
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The keyword method
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Create an image that links the keyword with the meaning of the new word
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The keyword method
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What was Carney and Levin's experiment
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Learning the names of unusual animals
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Associated the items to be learned with a series of visual images of physical locations
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The method of loci
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What is the method of loci useful for?
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Leaning a list of items in a specific order
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Bring order to material to be learned, deep processing, easier retrieval
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Organization
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