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WHAT DID YOU LEARN IN CHAPTERS 18-19
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1. What is the purpose of a mnemonic device? _ ____________________________________________________________________ _ ____________________________________________________________________ 2. What is an acrostic? _ ____________________________________________________________________ 3. What is an acronym? _ ____________________________________________________________________ 4. How does a name/trait mnemonic help you recall learned information? _ ____________________________________________________________________ _ ____________________________________________________________________ 5. What topic was of interest to Herman Ebbinghaus in 1885? a. human emotion c. forgetting b. healthy children d. physical fitness 6. Why are intervals between reviews important for time-spaced learning? a. Spaced review makes the brain work harder to retrieve information and builds stronger synaptic patterns and connections to the information. b. The intervals allow time for group meetings c. The intervals allow students time to catch up on other homework d. none of the above 7. Time-spaced learning includes: a. review/repetition at intervals b. active recall generating the answer in your brain c. moving review/repetition intervals farther apart and adding bits of information until all is learned! d. all of the above 8. Active recall means: a. making your brain generate the answer c. reciting the answer aloud (or writing it out) b. pulling information from memory d. all of the above PRODUCT PREVIEW
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