Which of the following strategies for promoting meaningful encoding is Jack most capitalizing on when he creates concept maps of the ideas he is studying?
a. Organization
b. Imagery
c. Elaboration
d. Schema activation
Ques. 2Which of the following strategies for promoting meaningful encoding is Jack most capitalizing on when he first reviews topics already covered in class?
a. Organization
b. Imagery
c. Elaboration
d. Schema activation
Ques. 3A strategy for promoting meaningful encoding that involves the clustering information into coherent patterns is referred to as:
a. activity.
b. organization.
c. elaboration.
d. rehearsal.
Ques. 4Mnemonics promote learning because they capitalize on which of the following strategies for promoting meaningful encoding?
a. Attention
b. Organization
c. Retrieval
d. Elaboration
Ques. 5Which one, John or Bill, is more likely to remember the e-mail address? Why?
a. John, because he rehearsed the e-mail address several times.
b. Bill, because he associated it with the Dairy Queen.
c. John, because he was attracted to the girl.
d. Bill, because he kept the e-mail address in his sensory memory.
Ques. 6Bill also meets a great girl at a party, and she gives Bill her e-mail address, which is icecream3aol.com. Bill imagines taking the girl with him to a Dairy Queen. Bill is illustrating ___________ to promote ________.
a. rehearsal, meaningfulness.
b. organization, encoding.
c. elaboration, metacognition.
d. elaboration, encoding.
Ques. 7John meets a great girl at a party. She gives him her e-mail address. He really wants to follow up with her, so he says the e-mail address over and over in his head. Which of the following is best illustrated by John's actions?
a. Rehearsal, to combat the limits of sensory memory
b. Chunking, to combat the limits of working memory
c. Rehearsal, to combat the limits of working memory
d. Elaboration, to combat the limits of working memory
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