PSY 3109 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Motivation, Memory, Cognitive Dissonance
19 Nov 2018
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Distributed practice: spread out your studying; 4 sessions of 30 minutes spread out over a few days is better than. Interleaved practice: massed practice would be (for example) doing a block of addition problems, then block of subtraction, then multiplication, and then division. Interleaved practice would be doing a mix of them all in the same block: won"t feel like you are learning as quickly, but you are learning for long term, needs more research to understand parameters. Elaborative interrogation: the process of explaining why a fact is true, generate answers to questions of why and how, even if you don"t get the why part right, you are more likely to remember the fact. Involves explaining how new info is related to info that you already know: ask yourself questions such as: "what does this sentence mean to me?" Both elaborative interrogation and self-explanation encourage you to think deeply and make connections, leading to long term retention.
