Only One of the Following Teaching Practices Is Consistent with What

question 25

Multiple Choice

Only one of the following teaching practices is consistent with what we know about working memory. Which one?

• A)Mr. Adamson tells his students that,with practice,they will be able to do complicated long division problems in their heads.
• B)Ms. Borelli tells her students that they should try to focus on main ideas rather than try to remember every detail.
• C)Ms. Constas suggests that students in her Russian class listen to Russian audiotapes while they sleep.
• D)Mr. Dominowski urges his students to put information for tomorrow's test in their "short-term memories."

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Definitions:

Collective Unconscious

A term coined by Carl Jung referring to the part of the unconscious mind that is derived from ancestral memory and experience and is common to all humankind.

Levels of Awareness

The different stages or degrees of consciousness in which an individual has varying accessibility to thoughts, feelings, and perceptions.

Collective Unconscious

A concept in psychology proposed by Carl Jung, referring to the part of the unconscious mind that is derived from ancestral memory and experience, shared among beings of the same species.

Latent Memory Traces

Nonconscious memories that, while not presently accessible, can influence behavior and thought processes.