Chapter 6: Cognitive Theories of Learning: Basic Concepts
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1.  

What is the term used when we actively focus on certain stimuli to the exclusion of other stimuli?



2.  

What is the name of the component of memory that is our awareness or our conscience?



3.  

Mental repetition of information, which can improve its retention, is called



4.  

What is the name for the component of memory in which large amounts of information can be stored for long periods of time?



5.  

Which of the following parts of long-term memory stores facts and general knowledge?



6.  

What happens in short-term memory when information gets mixed up with, or pushed aside by, other information?



7.  

Which of the following statements best defines "retroactive inhibition"?



8.  

What is the term used to describe the tendency for items at the beginning of a list to be recalled more easily than other items?



9.  

Which of the following strategies works best if one wants to retain what has been learned over long periods of time?



10.  

Which of the following examples refers to "part learning"?



11.  

Learning a list of items in any order is called



12.  

Learning state capitals, the names and dates of Civil War battles, the addition and multiplication tables, the atomic weights of the elements, and the spelling of words are all examples of which type of verbal learning?



13.  

What is the term used to describe devices or general strategies for aiding the memory?



14.  

Memorizing multiplication tables, the chemical symbols for the elements, words in foreign languages, or the names of bones and muscles in the human body are all examples of which of the following types of learning?



15.  

Knowledge about one's own learning or about how to learn (thinking about thinking) is called



16.  

What does PQ4R stand for?



17.  

Which of the following statements defines the term "advance organizer"?



18.  

What is the term for images, concepts, or narratives that compare new information to information students already understand?



19.  

When teaching about the U.S. annexation of Texas and California, a teacher asks students to consider the example of a friend borrowing a bike but not returning it. Which of the following terms refers to the example?



20.  

Which part of the information processing model receives information from the senses and holds it for a very short period of time?

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