Why does organizing the digits 1-9-7-6-1-5-8-8 into the dates 1976 and 1588 make learning the series of digits easier?
a. It provides cues and reduces the number of chunks to be learned.
b. It eliminates the need to devise mnemonic devices.
c. It increases the chunking capacity of long-term memory.
d. It makes use of both maintenance and elaborative rehearsal.
A
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a. it saves teachers time and money. b. it is required as an arts component of the No Child Left Behind Act. c. it conveys that the children's ideas and creations are valued. d. it shows parents how advanced the students are.
Mrs. Thompson, Casey's teacher, knows that Casey doesn't have very many clothes. Her parents are both disabled and have to live on welfare. Mrs. Thompson has decided to do a "Clothes for a Cause" drive with the rest of the teachers. What type of advocacy is Mrs. Thompson doing?
a. case advocacy b. class advocacy c. welfare advocacy d. family advocacy
A researcher is wishing to undertake a study of the relationship between a specific type of analgesia and levels of pain experienced by sufferers of rheumatoid arthritis. It is believed that level of physical activity will influence both of these variables and so it has been decided that the use of partial correlations will allow for this in the research. On which of the following should a correlation be performed?
A. Type of analgesia used and level of pain experienced, controlling for level of physical activity B. Level of pain experienced and level of physical activity, controlling for type of analgesia used C. Type of analgesia used and physical activity level, controlling for level of pain experienced D. None of the above
Conflict occurs only in situations when a person wants other group members
a. To act out of character for the group persona b. To do something they don't want to do and does not have enough power to make them do it c. To do a task that doesn't fit with the goals of the group d. To do something the group wants to do, but acts in a coercive manner