Information Processing Model
The brain filters out any information that does not pass these 3 tests. (Name 2.)
What is not useful, not important, or irrelevant?
Define, recall, recognize, recite.
What are "remembering" verbs?
Type of memory where images of experiences organized by when and where they happened.
What is the episodic memory?
Refers to the mental interpretation of stimuli. We are conscious of sensory images, but they are not necessarily the same as what we saw, heard, or felt.
What is perception?
When information being learned gets mixed up with (or pushed aside by) other information.
What is interference?
Learning of items in linked pairs (e.g., states & capitals).
What is paired-associate learning?
The 3 parts of the brain as described in the information processing model.
Describe, rephrase, explain.
What are "understanding" verbs?
Type of memory that helps learner recall how to do something, especially a physical task.
What is the procedural memory?
Focusing on certain stimuli to the exclusion of others, otherwise no learning will take place.
What is attention?
The tendency for items at the beginning of a lesson to be recalled more easily than other items.
What is the primacy effect?
Learning a list of terms in a particular order (e.g., names of the states, lines in a poem).
What is serial learning?
Information processing component where information enters the brain.
What is the sensory register?
Use, solve, employ.
What are "applying" verbs?
Type of memory that is organized by schemata and helps us to understand and organize new information.
What is the semantic memory?
Miller's Magical number. Refers to how much a learner can retain in short-term memory for about 30 seconds without rehearsal.
What is 7 plus or minus 2 elements/chunks?
The tendency for items at the end of a lesson to be recalled more easily than other items.
What is the recency effect?
Memorization, but in no particular order (e.g., organ systems in the body).
What is free recall learning?
Information processing component that receives information from the sensory register.
What is the short-term memory?
Order/sequence, categorize.
What are "analyzing" verbs?
The process of transforming and transferring of information into long-term memory.
What is encoding?
Theory that predicts that information represented both visually and verbally is recalled better than information represented in only one form.
The most common method for committing information to memory.
What is practice?
Strategy for remembering lists by picturing items in familiar locations (like your house).
What is the Loci method?
Information processing component that receives information from the short-term memory.
What is the long-term memory?
Judge, evaluate, recommend.
What are "evaluating" verbs?
Examples of encoding schemes. (Name one).
What are organization (categories, hierarchies), mnemonics, and imagery?
The 2 almond-like structures associated with the reptilian brain (brain stem) that regulate emotion.
What are the amygdala?
Technique in which items to be learned are repeated at intervals over a period of time.
What is distributed practice?
The 6 steps in the PQ4R Method of learning.
What are preview, question, read, reflect, recite, review?