Question

Dr. Wiley asks students to look at real-world problems related to political science, instead of reading and studying textbooks and note cards with definitions. This is because Dr. Wiley is familiar with the research on memory and understands thata. people only remember things related to current events.
b. memory we can connect to knowledge we already have is recalled better.
c. this information will stay in sensory memory longer.
d. the first items learned are more easily remembered.

Answer 1

Answer: b. memory we can connect to knowledge we already have is recalled better.

Explanation: Real-world problems which most times we have experienced and known is easily recalled because they appear real to us. Hence, we can give a detailed explanation of such problems unlike things we just read from books which might be abstract to us because we have not had a knowledge of that.