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Themember4

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After his class returns from a field trip to the local historical museum, Mr. Cordova asks his students to write an essay describing the things they learned at the museum. Considering factors that influence memory storage, which one of the following effects should writing the essay have on what the students will later remember about the field trip?
 
  a. They will remember the trip better than if they had not written about it.
  b. They will tend to confuse aspects of the trip with previous field trips that they've written about in other essays.
  c. Although they won't necessarily remember any more about the trip, what they do remember will tend to be remembered more as visual images than it might have been otherwise.
  d. Writing about the trip will enhance students' short-term memory of the trip, but it will not necessarily enhance their long-term memory of it.

Question 2

An advantage of knowing some skills to a level of automaticity is that automaticity:
 
  a. Lessens the working memory load for a task involving those skills
  b. Facilitates the development of schemas and scripts for those skills
  c. Facilitates the meaningful learning of those skills
  d. Facilitates the internal organization of those skills



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Answer to Question 1

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Answer to Question 2

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