An Instructor Makes Online Practice Quizzes Available to Her Students

question 57

Multiple Choice

An instructor makes online practice quizzes available to her students in order to help them study for the midterm exam. She allows the students to take each practice quiz more than once, but requires them to wait at least one day between attempts. She is trying to help students by making use of the principle of

• A) encoding specificity.
• B) levels of processing.
• C) desirable difficulties.
• D) massed learning.

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Definitions:

Research Hypotheses

Proposed explanations made on the basis of limited evidence as starting points for further investigation into the relationships between variables.

Independent Variable

The independent variable is a variable in an experiment or model that is manipulated or changed to observe its effects on a dependent variable.

Distribution

Refers to how values in a data set are spread or dispersed, indicating the frequency of each value or range of values.

Pie Chart

Figure that uses a circle divided into proportions to represent the percentage of the sample corresponding to each value of a variable.