Elaine has been teaching seniors in a health occupations program at a local "magnet" high school for the past three years. The curriculum contains a lot of medical and technical terms that students must become familiar with. She found this article about human memory, and it answered three questions she had about how to improve her own instruction, as well as aiding the retention and recall of her students in their respective learning endeavors:

http://www.odci.gov/csi/books/19104/art6.html

This activity contains 3 questions.

	What memory system comprises the bottleneck in human information processing, and why?   To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

	What are three ways that an application of human information processing theory can improve a teacher's lesson designs and delivery?   To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

	What are two kinds of forgetting, and how can teachers minimize their respective effects on retention of learned material?   To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

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