Activity for the book My Psychology

Chapter App 5.2 Efforts to Improve Memory

Use your experience with the app in 5.2 Efforts to Improve Memory Success or view this video overview to answer the questions.

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Elevate is a brain training app that helps users improve comprehension and memory, among other skills. In one of the app’s games, the user must quickly read a passage and then answer questions about the facts presented in it. This game, which relies on the user to recall specific facts, tests what form of explicit memory?
Elise is playing a game on the Elevate app that asks her to fill in words after being shown their definitions. Over the course of the game, she sees eight words, but afterward she only remembers the last three. This tendency to remember only the last items in a list is known as .
Users of the Elevate app receive prompts to retake tests daily, as part of the training to improve their skills. The tendency to have better long-term memory when the attempts to study are broken up in this way is known as .
Varsha is studying new words for an upcoming Spanish test, but as she learns these new words, she finds that she has trouble recalling some of the words from earlier in the semester. This problem of retaining older information when learning new information is referred to as .
In addition to the techniques used by the Elevate app, other memory strategies involve techniques, such as creating an acronym or rhyme to help remember a list, or creating a mental image of a series of items. These specific techniques for enhancing memory are known as .