After His Class Returns from a Field Trip to the Local

question 62

Multiple Choice

After his class returns from a field trip to the local historical museum, Mr. Cordova asks his students to write an essay describing the things they learned at the museum. Considering factors that influence memory storage, which one of the following effects should writing the essay have on what the students will later remember about the field trip?

• A) They will remember the trip better than if they had not written about it.
• B) They will tend to confuse aspects of the trip with previous field trips that they've written about in other essays.
• C) Although they won't necessarily remember any more about the trip, what they do remember will tend to be remembered more as visual images than it might have been otherwise.
• D) Writing about the trip will enhance students' short-term memory of the trip, but it will not necessarily enhance their long-term memory of it.

Comprehend the role of customer demand in push and pull systems.

Understand the effects of lean manufacturing on inventory management.

Grasp the concept and implications of lean manufacturing on employee roles and expertise.

Know the accounting entries specific to a lean environment.

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Definitions:

Formulation

The process of creating a strategy, plan, or method for dealing with a specific issue or for achieving a specified goal.

Return

The gain or loss on an investment over a specified period, expressed as a percentage increase over the initial investment cost.

Zero Coupon

A type of bond that does not pay periodic interest payments but instead is sold at a deep discount from its face value and pays its full face value at maturity.

Imputed Interest

The assumed interest rate used by the IRS for tax purposes on loans with little or no interest, to ensure that tax is collected on essentially interest-free loans.