What Benefits Do Students Gain from Taking a "Gap Year

question 24

Multiple Choice

What benefits do students gain from taking a "gap year" abroad?

• A) improved English communication skills
• B) the ability to "internationalize" their resumes
• C) hands-on work experience
• D) rest and relaxation before beginning full-time employment

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Definitions:

Brown-Peterson Task

A cognitive task used to study short-term memory by distracting participants with a task immediately after they are given information to remember, therefore testing their ability to maintain it in memory.

Short-Term Memory

The ability to keep a limited amount of data in an immediately accessible condition for a brief duration.

Recall Performance

The ability to remember and retrieve information that has been previously learned or experienced.

Baddeley's Model

A framework explaining human memory wherein it's divided into three main components: the central executive, the phonological loop, and the visuospatial sketchpad, with a later addition of the episodic buffer.