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Question 21

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Mr. Torres is looking to purchase computer software that students will find engaging and that will allow them to work collbaboratively in small groups. Which of the following types of programs best meets this description?

A) drill-and-practice
B) tutorial
C) integrated learning system
D) virtual environments

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Why does organizing the digits 1-9-7-6-1-5-8-8 into the dates 1976 and 1588 make learning the series of digits easier?

A) It provides cues and reduces the number of chunks to be learned.
B) It eliminates the need to devise mnemonic devices.
C) It increases the chunking capacity of long-term memory.
D) It makes use of both maintenance and elaborative rehearsal.

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Describe the capacity of and the duration of information in long-term memory.

Explain the importance of the sensory register in the information-processing model for duration, sequence, control processes, sensory receptors, and status of information not processed.

Describe the sequence of cognitive processes that occur as people process information.

How does past experience influence the information currently being processed?

Describe the impact of attention on information in the sensory register.

Describe the nature and purpose of the sensory register.

Discuss how computer-based technology can be used to strengthen students' ability to process information. Then summarize the effect of multimedia, hypermedia, and virtual environment programs on learning and metacognition.

A critical control process that needs to take place during the sensory register stage of the information-processing model is known as

Describe the nature and significance of the serial position effect.

Ms. Jeffone, a middle school teacher, reminds her students to prepare well for the upcoming essay exam because it will cover a lot of material. In response, one of her students retorts, "Why bother! We'll forget all of the information over time, anyway." On the basis of current evidence, an appropriate response to this student's assertion would be

Explain how analogies can make abstract information more meaningful to your students.

What is the relationship between age and insight into one's own learning processes?

A student who finds himself relating a lecturer's statement that molecular structure is of a crystalline nature to a recollection of looking at crystals through a microscope is engaging in

You call the post office for a ZIP code that you need, just after you looked up the phone number. Unfortunately, you dial the wrong number. You attempt to dial again, only to discover that you've forgotten the phone number. From an information-processing standpoint, how can this be explained?

Under what condition is meaningful learning most likely to occur?

Describe techniques that help teachers capture and maintain their students' attention.

Describe the basic function of maintenance rehearsal and provide an example of this process.

When, in order to explain some complicated geometric concepts, you ask your students to imagine a flagpole and its shadow, you are employing _______________ as a means of helping them understand the concept.