Research Indicates That Students in Discovery Learning Classrooms Tend to Do

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Multiple Choice

Research indicates that students in discovery learning classrooms tend to do somewhat better on tests of

• A)rote learning.
• B)achievement.
• C)abstract thinking.
• D)factual knowledge.

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Definitions:

Retroactive Interference

The phenomenon where newly learned information interferes with the recall of information learned previously.

Misinformation Effect

The phenomenon in which a person's recall of episodic memories becomes less accurate due to post-event information.

Automatic Processing

The unconscious encoding of incidental or well-learned information without effort.

Effortful Processing

The active and conscious effort to encode or store information in memory.