CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD

COGNITION AND EMOTIONS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Walking through the halls of his high school 10 years after graduation, Tom experienced a flood of old memories. Tom’s experience showed the role of
A
state-dependent memory
B
context effects
C
retroactive interference
D
echoic memory
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Walking through the halls of his high school 10 years after graduation, Tom experienced a flood of old memories. Tom’s experience showed the role of: A)state-dependent memory.

Detailed explanation-2: -Effective effortful processing strategies include chunking, mnemonics, hierarchies, and distributed practice sessions (which produce results due to the spacing effect). The testing effect is the finding that consciously retrieving, rather than simply rereading, information enhances memory.

Detailed explanation-3: -Encoding: the processing of information into the memory system. Ex: extracting meaning.

Detailed explanation-4: -Declarative memory is also known as explicit memory, as it consists of information that is explicitly stored and involves conscious effort to be retrieved. This means that you are consciously aware when you are storing and recalling information.

Detailed explanation-5: -Source amnesia: attributing to the wrong source an event we have experienced, heard about, read about, or imagined; also known as source misattribution. Source amnesia, along with the misinformation effect, is at the heart of many false memories.

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