Eunice had trouble learning the formula for calculating the area of a circle, so she is saying it to herself over and over while the teacher passes out a geometry test. Eunice is demonstrating:
a. Storage in the sensory register
b. Retrieval from long-term memory
c. The use of rehearsal
d. The use of verbal mediation
Question 2
Which one of the following situations reflects the typical duration of working memory?
a. Arnie remembers his locker combination through the entire school year. By the end of summer vacation, however, he has forgotten it.
b. At noon, Barney makes a mental list of the five homework assignments he needs to complete that night. At 3:00 he checks himself and realizes that he still remembers all five. However, by 7:00 p.m. he cannot recall two of the five assignments.
c. Carol remembers most of the information she has been learning about World War II in class this week, but she remembers very little of what she learned about World War I two weeks ago.
d. Darrell looks up the correct spelling of the word fossil, repeats the letters once, and closes the dictionary. By the time he finds a piece of paper on which to write the word, he has forgotten how to spell it.
Insect species diversity on British host trees supports the area hypothesis.
Divisions of the Abdominal Area
Wild chimpanzees make and use simple tools to obtain food, learning tool making from one another.
How to find the area of composite figures (Part 2)
economic question (having trouble)
Circle