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Which of the following students provides the best understanding of the concept called elaboration?
 
  a. Harry: Elaboration means that you retrieve an item from working memory and use it immediately.
  b. Jodi: Elaboration happens when you have successfully used encoding specificity.
  c. Elizabeth: Elaboration means that you are trying to make an item as different as possible from all other items in memory.
  d. Soltan: Elaboration means that you think about how an item is related to other concepts.

Question 2

What is one explanation that Craik and his colleagues propose for why a deep level of processing leads to greater recall?
 
  a. At a deep level, you recognize the patterns more efficiently.
  b. Deep levels make the stimulus different from other memory traces in the system; it's more distinctive.
  c. Deep levels place more emphasis on vivid physical characteristics of the material.
  d. Encoding specificity is more likely to occur.



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briseldagonzales

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Answer to Question 1

Ans: d

Answer to Question 2

Ans: b




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Reply 2 on: Jun 20, 2018
Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it


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Excellent

 

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