Ch 8 How Memory functions

Paul, Sanjeet, Simon, Yuko, Francisca, and Junjie are all studying for a test. They have to remember 20 words for this test. Who is likely to perform the best?

Sanjeet who counts how many letters are in each word
Simon who counts how many of the letter "E"s are in the words.
Francisca who takes a walk around a nearby park and imagines each of the words on different parts of the park (trees, the gym, the slide etc).
Junjie who translates the words into his first language
Yuko who tries to study the words right before the test.

Asbjørn is trying to remember as many numbers of pi as possible. This is how he goes about remembering the numbers:

3 = The month of his wedding aniversary

14 = The day of his wedding aniversary

15 = The year of his wedding aniversary

92 = The age of his grandmother when he got married

6 = The number of his house in which he grew up in

535 = Looks like the acronym SES (social economic status)

89 = Asbjørn was 5 in 1989

What type of encoding is Asbjørn using in this example?

visual encoding
categorical encoding
Siurvival encoding
semantic encoding
acoustic encoding

Throughout all of these practice questions in this textbook, you are have been encoding the meaning of the words and trying to retrieve the information from memory. The encoding of words and the meaning behind the words is known as:

acoustic encoding
visual encoding
procedural encouding
semantic encoding
mental encoding

A study tip that has been shown to improve memory for the studied material is to read the material out loud while you are studying it (see, for example, Noah, Forrin, & MacLeod, 2017).

Why might this be so?

This technique uses only acoustic encoding.
This technique uses two types of encoding, semantic and visual.
This technique uses two types of encoding, visual and auditory.
This technique automatically engages the self-reference effect by hearing one's voice while studying.
This technique uses two types of encoding, semantic and auditory.