Mixed Vocab
Gestalt Theory
What is people's tendency to organize sensory info into patterns or relationships?
Decay
What is the weakening and fading of memories over time?
Rachel had been practicing her multiplication tables for weeks before her yearly standardized test. she knew all of her facts completely. This type of knowledge that Rachel has now attained does not require attention and concentration. This process is known as what?
What is Automaticity?
Memory for meaning.
What is semantic memory?
The process of detecting a stimulus and assigning meaning to it.
What is perception?
Chunking
What is grouping individual bits of data into meaningful larger units?
Miss Campbell wanted to ensure that her driver's education students were safe under all circumstances. In order to ensure this, she had her students drive in the rain and snow. She also made sure they had adequate practice for driving in traffic and on the highway. Miss Campbell was demonstrating which of the following strategies?
What is Domain-Specific?
Practice for a single-extended period.
What is massed practice?
Long-term Memory
What is the permanent store of knowledge?
Story Grammer
What is the typical structure or organization for a category of stories?
Maria is trying to remember all of the objects in her locker at school. "Let me think... pens, pencils, markers... um, math book, science book, notebooks... my coat, hat, and gloves... I can't remember any more." What learning strategy does Maria's response illustrate?
Repeating information by using memories, expectations, logic, and existing knowledge.
What is reconstruction?
Knowledge from memory that is recalled and consciously considered
What is Explicit Memory?
Procedral knowledge
What is "knowing something"?
Ms. Fought does not give out study guides in her classes, but she encourages students to create their own. Ms. Fought's strategy suggests that she understands...
What is the principle of desirable difficulty?
Knowledge that we are not concious of recalling but that influences our behavior or thought without our awareness.
What is Implicit Memory?
Repeating the information in your phonological loop or refreshing info in your visuospatial sketchpad (keeping info in working memory by repeating it to yourself).
What is maintenance rehearsal?
Serial-Position Effect
What is remembering the beginning and the end, but not the middle of a list?
Reflecting on his first year as a teacher, Mr. Beech was a bit embarrassed about how little he understood the teaching and learning process when he began teaching. He remembered handing back a math test and admonishing his students with the following words. "Everybody in this room knew the test was today. I cannot believe not one of you passed it. All I can say is, you had better master these concepts before we get into the testing season. Thirty percent of the standardized test is on algebra. I know we did several chapters quickly this time, more than you were used to, but we have to finish this book. And, no, I will not let you retake this test."
What are the three types of knowledge Mr. Beech's students probably had to use while taking the algebra test?
What is declarative knowledge, procedural knowledge, and self-regulatory knowledge?
What is Phonological Loop?