[PSYCH 207] - Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (22 pages long!)

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH207
• Professor: Jennifer Stolz

Document Summary

Topic: test - enhanced learning in the classroom: long-term improvements from quizzing. Research on learning & memory: aimed at fact learning. How to enhance learning - change study strategies: organizational schemes o. Repeated reading of hi-lighted part makes reading it fluent, feels learned Tests don"t test fluent reading of notes or hi-lighted text. Read a text or collection of notes. If a test examines retrieval, what good is fluent reading as a study technique? o o. Compare: frequent testing to control (no quizzing/ instead frequent re-reading) Experiment: half facts tested, half not (counter-balanced) o. Four question options presented in different order on each test o. Free recall write down as many facts as you can. Iv: within subjects (items tested or not) Dv: proportion of items recalled or correct mc. Information that was given prior to the test. Regardless of test type (free recall or mc) , students scored higher on tested items.