According to the textbook, students often engage in rote learning rather than meaningful learning of school subject matter because:
a. it is human nature to do so unless taught otherwise.
b. classroom teaching and testing practices often encourage it.
c. information learned at a rote level is stored in working memory more quickly.
d. rote learning is characteristic of preoperational and concrete operational thought.
Question 2
Randy knows more as a tenth grader than he did as a first grader. One result of this increased knowledge base is that Randy:
a. is more easily distracted.
b. can use rehearsal more effectively.
c. can more easily understand new information.
d. is more likely to get the different things he knows confused with one another.
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