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frankwu

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on: Jun 20, 2018
Students' prior knowledge about a topic often influences their ability to learn something new about that topic. Explain how students' prior knowledge is involved in each of the following long-term memory storage processes:
 
  a. Elaboration
  b. Organization
  c. Visual imagery

Question 2

Describe what psychologists mean when they say that attention and working memory have a limited capacity. Discuss an implication of this limited capacity for students' learning in the classroom.
 
  What will be an ideal response?


mjbamaung

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Reply #1 on: Jun 20, 2018
Answer to Question 1

Answers to the separate parts of the question are as follows:
a. Elaboration involves expanding on new information

Answer to Question 2

People can attend to and process only a small amount of information, and thus can deal with only one complex task, at any one time. This limited processing capacity has several possible implications


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