A Participant Is Trying to Memorize the Word "Parade

question 58

Multiple Choice

A participant is trying to memorize the word "parade." To help herself, she thinks about the word within a complicated sentence: "From their third-floor apartment, they had a great view of all the bands, the cowboys, and the floats in the Thanksgiving parade." This learning strategy will produce

• A) fine memory performance, but similar performance could be achieved with simpler sentences as long as they require the participant to think about the meaning of the word.
• B) poor memory performance because the complicated sentence draws attention away from the target word.
• C) excellent memory performance because the sentence involves a great deal of maintenance rehearsal.
• D) excellent memory performance because the strategy requires attention to meaning and provides many memory connections.

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Definitions:

Diseconomies of Scale

The phenomenon where, as a firm scales up its production, the per unit cost starts to increase, typically due to inefficiencies.

Economies of Scale

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