Many psychologists believe that human memory has three components. Describe each of these ...

Many psychologists believe that human memory has three components. Describe each of these components, including both its capacity and its duration. Explain how students must process information so that it arrives at the third and final component.
 
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Describe what psychologists mean by the terms schema and script, and illustrate each of these concepts with a concrete example. Then explain how schemas and scripts sometimes play a role in learning and knowledge construction.
 
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Describe what psychologists mean when they say that attention and working memory have a limited capacity. Discuss an implication of this limited capacity for students' learning.
 
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The textbook suggests that students often engage in rote learning rather than meaningful learning of school subject matter because:
 
  A) It is human nature to do so unless taught otherwise.
  B) Rote learning is more effective than meaningful learning for children younger than age 10.
  C) Information learned at a rote level is stored in working memory more quickly.
  D) Classroom assessment practices often encourage it.

Ques. 5

Ms. Rushing, a middle school science teacher, wants her students to develop a good understanding of principles related to the concepts of force and velocity. Three of the following strategies should help her students construct such an understanding. Which strategy would educational psychologists be least likely to advocate for promoting effective knowledge construction related to force and velocity?
 
  A) Have students experiment with objects to observe the effects that force has on velocity.
  B) Perform classroom demonstrations that illustrate the concepts of force and velocity, and have students discuss alternative interpretations of the phenomena they observe.
  C) Have students apply principles of force and velocity to a task in which they must move a heavy object across the room.
  D) Make sure that students can recite definitions of both force and velocity and can repeat basic principles regarding how the two are interrelated.

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Which one of the following statements is consistent with the textbook's recommendations for promoting retrieval?
 
  A) Teach students how to create and use their own retrieval cues.
  B) Show students how to use the keyword method to help them remember lists of 10 items or more.
  C) Spend approximately two-thirds of each class day reviewing things that students already know.
  D) At the secondary school level, always use essay tests rather than multiple-choice tests.

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The textbook describes a study by Bartlett in which college students in England read a Native American ghost story entitled The War of the Ghosts. From Bartlett's results, we can conclude that students who read a story written from the perspective of a culture different from their own are likely to:
 
  A) Reject the story as being ridiculous or far-fetched.
  B) Form unwarranted and prejudicial attitudes about people from the other culture.
  C) Interpret the story in a way that's more consistent with their own culture.
  D) Construct a more multicultural perspective of the world.