Theories of Learning

According to the MSM, how do you create long-term memories?

• Attention

• Retrieval

• Rehearsal

• Search

Which of the following is the shallowest level of processing?

• Structural

• Semantic

• Phonological

• Executive

Which of the following is the deepest level of processing?

• Structural

• Semantic

• Phonological

• Executive

The amount of information you can hold in your conscious attention at any one time.

• Working memory capacity

• Working memory

• Cognitive load

• Episodic buffer

Prior knowledge that influences learning, memory and reading.

• Facts

• Models

• Schema

• Theories

Information that is difficult to process is better remembered

• Disfluency effect

• Irrelevant sound effect

• Mozart effect

• Desirable difficulties

Negatively correlated with reading comprehension

• Working memory capacity

• Rehearsal ability

• Search skills

• Age

Before learning something new, students should have their schemas.....

• Triggered

• Activated

• De-activated

• Turned on

What is necessary for information to go from sensory memory to short-term memory?

• Rehearsal

• Attention

• Search

• Transfer

What model is this?

• Levels of processing

• Multi-store model

• Schema theory

• Working memory model