Identify and describe the five factors most important in influencing human memory and learning
What will be an ideal response?
* The greater the number of study sessions, the better the learning and memory.
* Spaced practice is more effective than massed practice.
* Material that is meaningful will be learned better and remembered longer.
* A group of items of the same general type will be better learned than a group of dissimilar items.
* Items at the beginning and end of a study session or list will be learned better than items in the middle of a study session or list.
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A) two B) three C) five D) nine
Technical skills are most important to the persons at the top of the organizational hierarchy.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
Brown and Kulik speculated that because of intense emotion and surprise,__________
memories tend to remain especially vivid and long-lasting. a. photographic b. overwhelming c. flashbulb d. life-changing e. formative
The cognitive gains of the late teens and early twenties are supported by further brain development, especially the
A) speech and auditory centers. B) activity of the amygdala. C) prefrontal cortex and its connections with other brain regions. D) connections between the left and right hemispheres.