Including effective encoding strategies, storage strategies, and efficient retrieval strategies. You will also examine cognitive biases you might show in everyday interactions
Look at the list of concepts below. From the list, identify two or three things you are doing well in studying for your classes and two or three changes that you would make to improve your study skills. Your answer should include at least four psychological concepts related to memory. For each concept, you will need to define the psychological concept in your own words and explain how it relates to what you do well or do poorly but could improve on. Specific examples are helpful.
Elaborative encoding
Semantic encoding
Maintenance rehearsal
Chunking
Spacing effect
Context-dependent learning
State-dependent learning
Procedural memory
Priming
Retroactive or proactive interference
Serial position effect
Self-reference effect
Recall vs. recognition
Overlearning
Look at the list of concepts below. From the list, identify two cognitive biases that you might have shown in everyday life. For each concept, you will need to define the psychological concept in your own words and then give a unique real life example of where it applies in your life (i.e. you made the error or might made the error). You may not use examples already presented in the reading. They should be new examples. (Note: You cannot use these examples again for extra credit for exam 2).
Source monitoring
Sleeper effect
Confirmation bias
Functional Fixedness
Misinformation Effect
Overconfidence
Representativeness heuristic
Availability heuristic
Salience
Cognitive accessibility
Counterfactual thinking
Write your essay in a word processing program. As a reminder, you should use complete sentences (not a table or bullets) with definitions of concepts in your own words. Save the essay to your computer as a .doc file. This is the format we will use for most essays in this course.
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