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123.A health club advertises its telephone number as : 1200710.
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123.A health club advertises its telephone number as 2HEALTH rather than 243-2584. Provide two reasons explaining why the health club would advertise the number in this way using the human memory model as a basis for your explanation.
124. Suppose you have taught your students about adjectives, and now you want to teach the students comparative and superlative forms of adjectives. (A dog is a larger animal than a cat. [comparative form] Of a mouse, cat, and dog, the dog is the largest. [superlative form]). You want to use the human memory model as a basis for your teaching. (1) Describe specifically [use a specific example] what you would do first in the lesson. (2) Describe specifically what you would do second in the lesson. [Again, use a specific example or question.] (3) Describe at least one strategy you could use to promote meaningful encoding in the lesson.
Metacognition
125.Learners’ knowledge and control over mental processes, such as attention, communication, and memory are best described as their:
a.perception.
b.encoding.
c.learning.
d.metacognition.
126.Learners’ awareness of and their ability to control the strategies they use to remember information are best described as their:
a.metamemory.
b.cognition.
c.elaboration.
d.retrieval.
127.Felyce, an eighth grader, sits near the back of the room in her history class. She has found herself “drifting off” lately, so she asks her teacher Mrs. Ruiz if she can move and sit at the front of the room, since there is one empty desk in the front. Of the following, Felyce’s behavior best illustrates:
a.encoding strategies.
b.meta-attention.
c.a mnemonic device.
d.selective perception.
128. Older students recognize the need for taking notes while younger ones do not, so we see older students taking notes but don’t see younger ones doing it. Of the following, this observation is most closely related to which of the following concepts related to information processing?
a.Attention
b.Metamemory
c.Perception
d.Rehearsal
129. Gloria and David are studying together for the next day’s quiz. “What are you doing?” David asks. “I always try to solve the sample problems before I read the solutions they give us in the book. I remember the procedures better that way than if I just read over the solutions they give,” Gloria responds. Of the following, Gloria’s comment and behavior best illustrate:
a.metamemory.
b.meta-attention.
c.organization.
d.elaboration.
Essay Items
123.A health club advertises its telephone number as : 1200710
