Considering Developmental Trends in Learning Strategies, Choose the Statement That

question 15

Multiple Choice

Considering developmental trends in learning strategies, choose the statement that best characterizes how high school students are apt to approach school learning tasks.

• A) Even at the high school level, most students do little if anything to help them learn and remember school subject matter.
• B) High school students rely largely on comprehension monitoring to learn visual information; they are more apt to use rehearsal for auditory information.
• C) Some high school students intentionally organize and elaborate on class material; others rely largely on rehearsal.
• D) Organization and elaboration decrease over the high school years, in large part because such storage processes are less necessary as the brain matures to its adultlike form.

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Definitions:

Meta-Communication

Communication about communication, referring to the ways in which individuals convey how their messages should be interpreted.

Semantics

The branch of linguistics concerned with the meaning of words, phrases, and sentences.

Language Routines

Repeated patterns or sequences of language used in communication, often unconsciously, that serve specific social functions.

Verbal

Relating to or in the form of words, especially spoken communication.