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Chapter 10--Study
1. What are the three memory systems and what do they do?
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2. What is another name for short term memory?
3. In general, how much information can your short-term memory hold?
4. What are mnemonic devices and what do they do?
5. What is the bizarreness effect?
6. Explain the pegging system?
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7. What does it mean when you “know something”? What does “knowing something” depend on?
Explain that last answer.
8. Look at the list of tips in Using Study Groups. Choose one and explain why it’s important.
9. Of the questions that are important to ask an instructor before a test, which one do you feel is
most important to know and why?
10. Name and define the three types of responses that every test question will elicit.
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b.
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