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Langan: Reading and Study Skills
Reading and Study Skills, 7/e
John Langan
Mastery Tests

Building a Powerful Memory

Some of the questions that follow are true–false or multiple-choice questions, and some require you to write short answers.

1

The first step in effective remembering is to the material to be learned.
2

The best way to avoid passive studying is to
A)study right before bed.
B)test yourself on the material to be learned.
C)copy several times the material to be learned.
D)review material in the morning.
3

Material is best studied in a single long session rather than spaced out over several sessions.
A)TRUE
B)FALSE
4

Overlearning is
A)unnecessary memorization.
B)going over a lesson you already know.
C)incompatible with learning.
D)a way to "push out" old ideas so that you can learn new ones.
5

If you reduce ideas to key words and memorize the key words, they will often serve as that will help you pull the ideas into memory.
6

What aid to memory is illustrated by the fact that someone will always remember the name of a person who owes him or her money?
A)Spacing memory work.
B)Intending to learn.
C)Using key words as hooks.
D)Overlearning.
7

To gain the overall understanding you need in order to learn material effectively, you should
A)attend class lectures regularly.
B)read textbook assignments.
C)take classroom and textbook notes.
D)do all of the above.
8

One memory aid is to include as a study period the time just before .
9

Write a catchword that will help you remember the first letters of the following kinds of defense mechanisms: projection, repression, identification.
10

Write a catchphrase that will help you remember the following kinds of taxes: self-employment, income, sales, property.








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