Suppose That You Hear a Lecture About Memory Improvement, and the Speaker

question 53

Multiple Choice

Suppose that you hear a lecture about memory improvement, and the speaker says, "We must remember the value of desirable difficulties." The speaker is likely to emphasize that

• A) academic tests must be difficult enough to differentiate between the students who deserve A's and the students who deserve lower grades.
• B) professors who want to assess their academic programs must be sure that the courses are sufficiently difficult.
• C) students' motivation will be higher if they are allowed to select the appropriate level of difficulty for the material in a course they are taking.
• D) if students test themselves several minutes after learning some material, they will make more errors, which will encourage them to spend more time studying.

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