When We Increase the Wait Time After Teacher Questions from One

question 33

Multiple Choice

When we increase the wait time after teacher questions from one second to three seconds, we can expect students' answers to those questions to:

• A) Be longer and more complex
• B) Reflect decreased motivation to answer questions in the future
• C) Reflect more automatic processing (instead of controlled processing)
• D) Be more dependent on retrieval cues present in the immediate situation

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Definitions:

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