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JGIBBSON

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Only one of the following teaching practices is consistent with what we know about working memory. Which one is consistent?
 
  a. Mr. Adamson tells his students that, with practice, they will be able to do complicated long division problems in their heads.
  b. Ms. Borelli tells her students that they should try to focus on main ideas rather than try to remember every detail.
  c. Ms. Constas suggests that students in her Russian class listen to Russian tapes while they sleep.
  d. Mr. Dominowski urges his students to put information for tomorrow's test in their short-term memories.

Question 2

Eunice had trouble learning the formula for calculating the area of a circle, so she is saying it to herself over and over again while the teacher passes out the geometry test. Eunice is demonstrating:
 
  a. storage in the sensory register.
  b. retrieval from working memory.
  c. the use of verbal mediation.
  d. the use of maintenance rehearsal.


mjenn52

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Answer to Question 1

b

Answer to Question 2

d



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