When the instructor began speaking loudly on the first day of class, most students
stopped talking. Which is the best explanation?
(a) the students followed a script, a sort of schema, describing what to do in a
college lecture
(b) working memory can only hold a limited amount of information
(c) the first thing the instructor said was to be quiet
(d) the students had had a long history of positive reinforcement for being
quiet
A
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