Considering developmental trends in learning strategies, choose the statement that best characterizes how high school students are apt to approach school learning tasks
a. Even at the high school level, most students do little if anything to help them learn and remember school subject matter.
b. High school students rely largely on comprehension monitoring to learn visual information; they are more apt to use rehearsal for auditory information.
c. Some high school students intentionally organize and elaborate on class material; others rely largely on rehearsal.
d. Organization and elaboration decrease over the high school years, in large part because such storage processes are less necessary as the brain matures to its adultlike form.
C
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
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