Strategies that significantly improve students’ abilities to comprehend the text are called
a. main idea and self-monitoring
b. text structure strategies
c. summarizing and self-questioning strategies
d. activating prior knowledge
Ans: B
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accordingly, and vice versa. Thus, experimental participants performing visualization tasks may be responding in part to the ____ of the task. a. perceptual difficulty b. matching variables c. demand characteristics d. cognitive complexity
The most powerful control technique, given the number of influences potentially controlled, is
a. matching. c. counterbalancing. b. random assignment. d. homogeneous selection.
As toddlers grow, their growth rate:
A) Increases. B) Decreases. C) Stays the same.
Many psychologists propose that learning often involves elaboration. Explain what they mean by the term elaboration, and give a concrete example to illustrate it. Then explain:
a. Why educational psychologists recommend that students elaborate as much as possible b. Why different people often elaborate on the same information differently c. Why elaboration sometimes leads to the storage of inaccurate information