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formula1 · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

Which of the following students provides the best understanding of the concept called elaboration?

a. Harry: Elaboration means that you retrieve an item from working memory and use it immediately.
b. Jodi: Elaboration happens when you have successfully used encoding specificity.
c. Elizabeth: Elaboration means that you are trying to make an item as different as possible from all other items in memory.
d. Soltan: Elaboration means that you think about how an item is related to other concepts.

Question 2

What is one explanation that Craik and his colleagues propose for why a deep level of processing leads to greater recall?

a. At a deep level, you recognize the patterns more efficiently.
b. Deep levels make the stimulus different from other memory traces in the system; it's more distinctive.
c. Deep levels place more emphasis on vivid physical characteristics of the material.
d. Encoding specificity is more likely to occur.