Your answer should include at least five psychological concepts related to memory from the list below.
For this assignment, you are going to evaluate your study strategies based on your knowledge of memory including effective encoding strategies, storage strategies, and efficient retrieval strategies. Follow the Written Assignment Guidelines in this and all other assignments in this course.
- Identify two or three things you are doing well in your studying and two or three changes that you would make to improve your study skills. Your answer should include at least five psychological concepts related to memory from the list below. 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.
Recall vs. recognition
Effortful vs. automatic processing
Chunking
Mnemonics
Spacing effect
Testing effect
Shallow vs. deep processing
Self-reference effect
Repetition
Retrieval cues
Priming
Context effects
State-dependent memory
Serial position effect
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