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Alygatorr01285 · **on:** Jun 19, 2018

Assuming that the students below studied only at the times described and that all other things (intelligence, motivation, previous knowledge of psychology) are equal, who is most likely to do the best on this exam?

a. Otto, who studied the textbook for ten hours straight during the day today.
b. Omar, who studied two hours each day for the last five days (including today) for a total of ten hours.
c. Ophelia, who studied ten hours straight last Saturday.
d. Olivia, who studied two hours each day for five consecutive days two weeks ago.

Question 2

Your friend Benjamin tells you that hes going to study for his upcoming exam by setting aside six hours one day to devote solely to the material. Having learned much from your psychology class, you explain to Benjamin that its much more effective for him to utilize ____ to study because it will help him to spread out the material and learn it more deeply

a. distributed practice
b. massed practice
c. the recency effect
d. the primacy effect