Question 1

A student who is taking a course in educational psychology for the first time scans through the information-processing theory chapter and notes the word metacognition, which is unfamiliar. This student's selective focusing on the term metacognition is known as

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A)   retrieval.
B)   elaborative rehearsal.
C)   attention.
D)   discriminant encoding.

Question 2

Insight into one's learning processes seems to

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A)   decrease with age.
B)   increase with age.
C)   change very little over the life span.
D)   be related to success in math or science classes.

Question 3

The process of recognition is best described as one that involves

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A)   storing information for a few seconds for possible processing.
B)   perception and attention.
C)   relating stimulus information to information stored in long-term memory.
D)   focusing on that part of a stimulus array that is of most interest.

Question 4

Some psychologists believe that information in long-term memory (LTM)  is organized in terms of schemata. Schemata can be defined as

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A)   concrete analogies of abstraction concepts.
B)   emotional representations of information.
C)   abstract structures of information.
D)   simplistic representations of ideas.

Question 5

Having a French storyteller come into your French class to tell a story will probably

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A)   enhance learning if this is a typical instructional activity.
B)   enhance learning since unusual events often command a student's attention.
C)   have no facilitating effect on students' learning French.
D)   detract from the lesson because students will be too distracted to learn.

Question 6

Long-term memory (LTM)  refers to information

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A)   learned decades ago rather than last week.
B)   that is permanently stored and available for possible retrieval.
C)   that is no longer retrievable.
D)   learned in the form of long lists.

Question 7

If you decided to use computer-based instruction in your classroom with the goals of producing a high level of student engagement and meaningful learning, explain why virtual environments would be a good choice.

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Because they contain multimedia and hype...

Question 8

Define elaborative rehearsal and provide an example of this process.

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Elaborative rehearsal is the practice of...

Question 9

Sonya, a student in an educational psychology course, is studying for an exam, and it is very late at night. She suddenly realizes that she has not comprehended the paragraph that she has just read. Which concept refers to the ability that allowed Sonya to recognize her failure to comprehend?

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A)   perceptual intervention
B)   metacognitive processing
C)   metaphysical inference
D)   cognitive flexibility

Question 10

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

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Short-term memory serves to store up to ...

Question 11

Discuss the differences between short-term memory (STM) and long-term memory (LTM) in terms of its position in the information-processing sequence, storage capacity, duration, control processes, and organization.

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Short-term memory, which is also called ...

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