Hermann Ebbinghaus discovered the law of __________, which says that people tend to remember information better when they spread their learning out over long intervals rather than cram it into short ones.
a. distributed versus massed practice
b. temporal memorization
c. strategic short-term retention
d. memory sensitivity over time
a. distributed versus massed practice
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Which of the following is one of the five domains emphasized by Grusec & Davidov (2010) in their domain-specific approach to understanding parent–child socialization?
a) Power b) Prestige c) Achievement d) Protection
Donovan is really into football and is able to remember all of the professional teams because he has mentally sorted them by division. This indicates that Donavan is using ____ to help him recall the information
a. divergent thinking b. organization c. abstract thinking d. rehearsal
A teacher says, "Your child is strong in the area of metamemory.". The parent has been told that her child is well developed in the domain of
a. having a slow rate of forgetting. b. knowledge about her own memory processes. c. being able to reason with verbal analogies. d. willingness to attempt difficult memory feats.
Entire shapes of objects are to ________ cues, as smaller pieces of objects are to ________ cues
a) synesthetic; anosmic b) monocular; binocular c) top-down; bottom-up d) holistic; part