Describe what psychologists mean when they say that attention and working memory have a limited capacity. Discuss an implication of this limited capacity for students' learning
What will be an ideal response?
People can attend to and process only a small amount of information–and thus can deal with only one complex task–at any one time. This limited processing capacity has several possible implications (the response needs to mention only one of these):
• Keep students' attention focused on the task at hand.
• Capture students' attention by making subject matter interesting, exciting, puzzling, and so on.
• Minimize distractions that take students' attention away from their schoolwork.
• Pace instruction so that students receive only so much new information at once–so that the capacity of their working memory capacity is not exceeded.
• Don't ask students to solve complex problems entirely in their heads.
• Promote automaticity of basic skills that students will use in more complex activities.
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