Testing Your Ability to Recall Information You Have Just Studied

question 143

Multiple Choice

Testing your ability to recall information you have just studied improves your long-term retention of that information.Psychologists have referred to this as

• A) SQ3R.
• B) informed consent.
• C) the testing effect.
• D) massed practice.

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Definitions:

Left Hemisphere

The half of the brain that is typically responsible for language processing, logical reasoning, and analytical tasks in most individuals.

Picky Eaters

Individuals, often children, who have a very selective and limited range of food preferences.

Egocentrism

Piaget’s term for children’s inability to take another person’s point of view or perspective and to assume that others share the same feelings, knowledge, and physical view of the world.

Preoperational Reasoning

Piaget’s second stage of cognitive development, between about ages 2 and 6, characterized by advances in symbolic thought, but thought is not yet logical.