Choose a topic on which you might give a short explanation or lecture to students. With effective memory storage processes in mind, describe three different strategies you might use to help students store the information in their long-term memories easily and effectively. Using information processing theory, give a theoretical rationale for each of the strategies you propose
What will be an ideal response?
Examples of effective strategies are these:
• Capturing and/or maintaining attention
• Accommodating the limited capacity of working memory
• Encouraging students to elaborate on new ideas
• Facilitating organization of the information presented
• Facilitating visual imagery
The response should describe three concrete strategies that reflect one or more of the above alternatives and/or are in other ways consistent with information processing theory. It should also relate each strategy to the specific process(es) it promotes.
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