When educators use the expression "Less is more" in their discussions of promoting complex cognitive processes, they mean that:
A) Students are more likely to engage in complex processes when they focus on learning a few topics very well.
B) Students are more likely to engage in complex processes if they spend very little time per day listening to lectures.
C) Students will more successfully transfer what they've learned to new problems and situations when those problems are simple rather than complex.
D) Students can only store so much in working memory at any one time.
A
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