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Midterm Exam EPY 602
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- EPY 602
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- University Of South Alabama
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Take Home Midterm EPY 602 Fall 2023Part 1
1. Attention is a person’s allocation of cognitive resources to the task at hand. Research
on attention shows that human beings are severely limited in the number of things they
can pay attention to (Bruning et al, 2011). Sally’s difficulty in keeping up with her
customers could be associated with her attention. Sally’s boss could support her by giving
training on improving her attention span. Her boss could also help her prioritize tasks and
stay focused on the steps required to ring up sales at the cash register.
In addition to attention, Sally struggles with the steps involved in ringing up sales.
Her boss can help her by simplifying the process and teaching her mnemonic skills or
strategies to hold and manipulate information in her working memory more efficiently.
Mnemonics are memory strategies that help people remember information by creating
elaborate coding of new materials and stronger memory traces (Bruning et al, 2011).
Furthermore, procedural knowledge, knowing “how” to perform specific tasks or
procedures, allows us to do things such as make coffee, drive a car, or use a computer.
Sally’s boss can provide her with structured training sessions where she can practice
ringing up sales on the cash register, until the process becomes automatic and does not
require continuous referencing. Most learning involves interplay among declarative,
procedural, and conditional knowledge. Sally’s boss will find the declarative-procedural-
conditional knowledge distinction valuable for helping Sally think about her goals for
learning (Bruning, et al, 2011). No matter what the content domain, declarative
knowledge is most valuable when linked appropriately to actions.
, Take Home Midterm EPY 602 Fall 2023
References
Bruning, R. H., Schraw, G.J., & Norby, M. M. (2011). Cognitive psychology and
instruction (5 th edition). Boston, MA: Pearson/Prentice Hall
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