Your Friend Benjamin Tells You That He's Going to Study

question 15

Multiple Choice

Your friend Benjamin tells you that he's going to study for his upcoming exam by setting aside six hours one day to devote solely to the material.Having learned much from your psychology class,you explain to Benjamin that it's much more effective for him to utilize ____ to study because it will help him to spread out the material and learn it more deeply.

• A) distributed practice
• B) massed practice
• C) the recency effect
• D) the primacy effect

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Definitions:

Information Processing

The method by which humans or computers take in information, make sense of it, and then respond to it.

Connectionist

relates to a psychological theory which suggests that mental phenomena and processes can be described by artificial neural networks or interconnected systems of simple units.

Traditional Information Processing

Traditional Information Processing views the human mind as a system that processes information through a series of steps, similar to how a computer operates.

Serial Processing

A cognitive process where the brain analyses information in a linear, step-by-step manner, allowing for detailed and accurate analysis of each item in sequence.