Psy 212

Exam 4 – Review Sheet

Ch 7: Cognitive Views of Learning

• The information processing model
• Capacity and duration of sensory memory, short-term memory, working memory, long term memory

· Attention, rehearsal, retrieval cues, algorithms, heuristics

• Semantic networks
• Visual, acoustic, and semantic encoding
• Mnemonics, imagery, acronyms, peg-word method, chunking, hierarchical organization, the method of loci
• Episodic, procedural, semantic memory
• Recall tasks, recognition tasks
• The serial position effect
• Maintenance rehearsal, elaborative rehearsal
• State-dependent and context-dependent memory
• Retroactive interference and proactive interference
• Memory reconstruction
• Metamemory, metacognition

Ch 10: Motivation in Learning and Teaching

· Behavioral, Humanistic, Cognitive, Social Cognitive perspectives on motivation

· Extrinsic motivation, intrinsic motivation

· Overjustification effect

· Maslow’s hierarchy of needs

· Self-actualization

· Deficiency needs

· Resultant motivation

· Self-determination, Origins vs. pawns

· Attribution theory, 3 dimensions of attributions

· Internal locus of control and external locus of control

· Expectancy x value theory

· Characteristics of motivating goals

· Self-efficacy, Learned helplessness

· Relationship between arousal level and performance (Yerkes-Dodson Law)

· Ego-involved learners, task-involved learners