Vocab A-I
The act of processing information using two different areas of the brain. For example, visual and verbal.
The author of the study method with the acronym GAMES.
Who is Svinicki?
Gaining knowledge or skills through experience, study or being taught
What is learning?
Devoting time and attention to make learning happen
What is Studying?
The third step in McGuire's Intense Study Session.
What is Take a Break?
The amount of information that can be processed in short-term/working memory at any one time.
What is cognitive load?
At least one hour.
What is how long someone should wait after class before reviewing/writing notes?
Studying in fewer, longer sessions.
What is massed practice?
Creating a mental picture or image of something
What is Visualization?
The 4th step in Svinicki's GAMES Method
What is Explain the Material?
Performing any learning activity in which the short-term/working memory is actively processing information.
What is Active Learning?
This theory explains how human brains receive, process and store information like a computer.
What is Information Processing Theory?
The final stage of memory where the information from short-term/working memory is stored for long-term use.
What is long-term memory?
What is spaced practice?
The number of chunks of material most people can effectively learn in a 30 minute study session.
What is 5-9 chunks?
The theory that explains that brains have unlimited storage, but not unlimited processing abilities, so should avoid being overloaded.
What is Cognitive Load Theory?
Goal setting
Active studying
Memorable and Meaningful studying
Explain
Self-monitoring
What is Svinicki's GAMES method of studying?
What a learner knows before any new information is learned.
What is prior knowledge?
The first stage of memory where all thinking and processing of information occurs, also known as working memory.
What is sensory memory?
Daily Double!! The three key components that McGuire's and Svinicki's have in common.
What are setting goals, active studying, and assessing or reviewing at the end?
Explains how our minds receive, process and store information.
What is Information Processing Theory?
Active Learning Tasks
Take a Break
Review
What is McGuire's Intense Study Session?
The idea that humans learn better if they take in information from more than one sense at a time.
What is multisensory learning?
The practice of recalling what is known from long-term memory.
What is retrieval practice?
25-30 minutes
What is the ideal time for studying in the two study methods we discussed?