An individual can reflect on and use his/her awareness or knowledge to influence thinking. This use of your knowledge about cognitive processes is called ____.
a. metacognition
b. reflex activation
c. persistence
d. distributed learning
Ques. 2Manuela, a college student, has a clear awareness of what she knows and does not know about a particular topic, such that when she needs to study for an exam, she knows exactly what to study to enhance her understanding. This description illustrates ____.
a. construction
b. clustering
c. metacognition
d. massing
Ques. 3By making connections or associations between new information and what we already know we facilitate transfer of information from short -term memory to ____ memory.
a. sensory
b. working
c. semantic
d. long-term
Ques. 4____ is an aspect of cognition that involves thinking about how to remember more effectively, such as by using various mental strategies.
a. Consolidation
b. Metamemory
c. Construction
d. Interference
Ques. 5The process of taking new information and integrating it with stored information in long term memory is called ____.
a. metacognition
b. consolidation
c. constructive memory
d. reality monitoring
Ques. 6On his way to the supermarket, Marcelo remembers that he needs tomatoes and cucumbers. He then remembers that he also needs cheese, eggs, and milk. The order in which he remembered the grocery items illustrates that information stored in long-term memory seems to be primarily encoded ____.
a. visually
b. acoustically
c. semantically
d. by relevance
Ques. 7Information stored in long-term memory seems to be primarily ____.
a. visually encoded
b. acoustically encoded
c. semantically encoded
d. encoded by relevance
Ques. 8Encoding of information in the long-term store is primarily ____, but there is also is evidence for ____ encoding.
a. semantic; visual
b. visual; acoustic
c. acoustic; semantic
d. visual, semantic
Ques. 9Short-term memory is usually encoded ____ and long-term memory is usually encoded ____.
a. semantically; acoustically
b. acoustically; semantically
c. visually; acoustically
d. visually; semantically
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