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Speaking and Listening: Planning a Multimedia Presentation — Cumulative exam Answers

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Providing subgoals for individuals helps them solve problems more quickly.

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Overconfidence tends to make it harder for people to make decisions.

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Herman Ebbinghaus created __________ to measure retention.

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ineffective encoding
B
nonsense syllables
C
decay theory
D
proactive interference
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__________ focuses on one specific thing at a time, whereas __________ is the attempt to focus on more than one thing at a time.

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Divided attention . . . focused attention
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Focused attention . . . divided attention
C
Short-term memory. . . rehearsal
D
Rehearsal . . . divided attention
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Which of the following is NOT considered a form of communication?

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E-mail
B
Sign language
C
Smiling at someone
D
Talking to yourself
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The exemplar model of forming concepts is creating a mental image of the average features.

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Erin wishes she had taken notes in class because she could only remember the information from the last part of the lecture. This is an example of __________ effect.

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chunking
B
primacy
C
recency
D
serial
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A simple rule of __________ is that a sentence must have a noun phrase and a verb phrase.

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semantics
B
syntax
C
phonemes
D
morphemes
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Which sentence contains a nonrestrictive clause?

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Be sure to watch that movie I gave you.
B
The man who drives our bus is ill.
C
Take a left after that house with the yellow fence.
D
The old apron, which belonged to Mama, is torn.
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Outlines use________to identify various levels of information

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Numbers
B
Roman Numerals
C
Letters
D
All of these
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Graphic organizers

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Synthesize information
B
Evaluate information
C
Create information
D
None of these
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What is the purpose of reading material for the very first time?

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Memorizing basic fact
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Understanding the material, not memorizing it
C
Memorizing the material, not understanding it
D
Understanding the author’s voice
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Study groups help to develop which occupational skill that may be useful in a professional setting?

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Time management
B
Email
C
Team building
D
Typing
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Using the prototype model, how would one form a concept of a fish?

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Multimedia references may contain videos about a given topic.

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T
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Before class begins, Alma gets ready to take notes by reviewing last night’s reading assignment and the notes from the previous day. What is her next step?

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Write down everything the teacher says
B
Assemble any materials she might need for note taking
C
Copy her classmates notes after class
D
None of these
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The most beautiful contestant won the pageant. “Beautiful” has a negative connotation.

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Read the excerpt from "Mother Tongue."Yet some of my friends tell me they understand 50 percent of what my mother says. Some say they understand 80 to 90 percent. Some say they understand none of it, as if she were speaking pure Chinese. But to me, my mother’s English is perfectly clear, perfectly natural. It’s my mother tongue. Her language, as I hear it, is vivid, direct, full of observation and imagery. That was the language that helped shape the way I saw things, expressed things, made sense of the world. Which best summarizes the central idea of the excerpt?

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Nonstandard forms of English are valid, complete languages.
B
People from different cultures can easily learn to speak English.
C
The English and Chinese languages have similar structures.
D
Parents should use standard English with their children in the home.
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A good study group contains all of the same types of people.

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Describe the difference between divergent and convergent thinking, and explain which one is involved in creativity.

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