An Advantage of Knowing Some Skills to a Level of Automaticity

question 19

Multiple Choice

An advantage of knowing some skills to a level of automaticity is that automaticity:

• A) Lessens the working memory load for a task involving those skills
• B) Facilitates the development of schemas and scripts for those skills
• C) Facilitates the meaningful learning of those skills
• D) Facilitates the internal organization of those skills

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